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Andrew Davies

July 2020

  • Amit Chatterji (Mikhail Sen), Lata Mehra (Tanya Maniktala) and Haresh Khanna (Namit Das) in A Suitable Boy

    TV review
    A Suitable Boy review – a very British, Indian period drama

  • Love across the divide … Tanya Maniktala as Lata and Mahira Kakkar as her mother in director Mira Nair’s adapation of Vikram Seth’s novel.

    'This show is just the start': inside the BBC's all-person-of-colour A Suitable Boy

October 2019

  •  Charlotte Heywood (Rose Williams and Sidney Parker (Theo James) in ITV’s Sanditon.

    Books blog
    Sanditon: why are Austen fans so enraged by Andrew Davies' ending?

  • Grace Molony and Paksie Vernon in the Chichester production of The Watsons by Laura Wade.

    Sanditon and The Watsons: TV and theatre finish what Austen started

August 2019

  • Sanditon’s bathing machines, for the women to use while changing.

    Shortcuts
    Totally appropriate: why there should be more male nudity in costume dramas

  • Sanditon’s stars Theo James, Rose Williams, Crystal Clarke, Anne Reid and Kris Marshall

    TV review
    Sanditon review – every period drama box is ticked

July 2019

  • Sanditon stars (l-r) Jack Fox, Kris Marshall, Rose Williams, Leo Suter and Charlotte Spencer

    Jane Austen's Sanditon 'sexed up' in Andrew Davies adaptation

    Screenwriter says he used all the material from Austen’s work in first half of first episode

June 2019

  • Richard Brooks

    Nothing like a dame or a sir to honour television writers

    Richard Brooks
    If the Queen is handing out gongs, it’s time British screenwriters were recognised. And when will the National Gallery start to value its staff?

December 2018

  • The miserables ... (from left) Olivia Colman, Adeel Akhtar, Dominic West, Lily Collins, David Oyelowo, Josh O’Connor and Ellie Bamber.

    TV review
    Les Misérables review – merci, Andrew Davies, c'est magnifique

    Liberally scattered with talent from Dominic West and David Oyelowo to Lily Collins, this mercifully song-free adaptation was a rich feast to end the year
  • Dominic West has a convict beard so large it has its own casting agent and dressing room! … Les Misérables.

    Les Misérables: episode by episode
    Les Misérables episode one recap – it's the big muscle, magnificent trouser show!

    How do you rewrite a story everyone knows? With Dominic West as the Incredible Hulk, Derek Jacobi as a pruning bishop – and the Tinder profile from hell
    • Les Misérables' Andrew Davies: 'I haven't added much sex to it. Sorry to disappoint'

    • The book-to-TV adaptations to watch this Christmas, from Les Misérables to The Long Song

    • Les Misérables with 'contemporary relevance' to air on BBC

July 2018

  • Which should you be most excited about? Clockwise from top left: Gentleman Jack; Informer; Bodyguard; Luther; and Les Miserables.

    From Les Misérables to Gentleman Jack: the best BBC dramas this autumn

    The Beeb has unveiled its slate of shows to debut in September and beyond. Here is our ranking of the most exciting
  • Colin Firth as Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice

    Books blog
    'Quite a bit of nude sunbathing': how will Jane Austen's Sanditon stand up under Andrew Davies' male gaze?

    News that the veteran adapter of Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones is turning his hand to the unfinished Sanditon seems out of tune with the times
  • Still from the BBC TV serial Pride and Prejudice starring Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy and Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennett.

    Jane Austen's unfinished novel Sanditon to be adapted by ITV

    Andrew Davies, whose credits include War and Peace and Pride and Prejudice, will bring Austen’s last novel to the small screen

May 2018

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    Andrew Davies to defend John Updike with Rabbit TV series

    TV writer tells Hay festival he aims to ‘wipe out’ idea Updike was a misogynist

July 2017

  • Andrew Davies

    How to adapt Jane Austen for the screen, with Andrew Davies

    How to adapt Jane Austen for the screen with Andrew Davies

November 2016

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    Andrew Davies: 'I can't control myself'

    He may have just turned 80 but he isn’t slowing down. TV’s great adapter comes clean about his best binge-watch, dyeing Colin Firth’s hair – and why his Les Mis will be nothing like the ‘travesty’ of a musical

September 2016

  • Colin Firth as Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice.

    Colin Firth was told to dye hair for Pride and Prejudice as he was 'too ginger'

    Screenwriter Andrew Davies reveals star almost missed out on role of Mr Darcy in BBC drama, which launched his career
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