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The Daily News will return on Wednesday

Film casting

Jai Courtney to play Kyle Reese in new Terminator movies
Jamie Bell, Kate Mara, Michael B Jordan and Miles Teller are the new Fantastic Four
Elodie Yung to play Hathor in Gods of Egypt

UK TV

ITV renews: Mr Selfridge
Tuesday ratings

UK TV casting

Chris Morris joins Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle

US TV

Tuesday ratings

US TV casting

Marilu Henner to guest on The Crazy Ones
Tim Daly to guest on The Mindy Project
Wendell Pierce to recur on Ray Donovan

New US TV shows

Bravo green lights: Marti Noxon’s Girlfriends’ Guide To Divorce
A&E developing: The 36

New US TV show casting

Judd Hirsch to star in ABC’s Forever
Debra Messing to star in NBC’s adaptation of Spanish show Los Misterios De Laura, The Mysteries of Laura
Ryan McPartlin to guest on USA’s Playing House
Jada Pinkett Smith joins Fox’s Gotham
Paget Brewster joins ABC’s St Francis
Tracee Ellis Ross to star in ABC’s Black-ish + more casting
Nate Torrence to star in Fox’s Weird Loners
KaDee Strickland joins ABC’s Secrets and Lies
Terrence Howard to star in Fox’s Empire

The Wednesday Play: The Woman in Black (1989)

19 February 2014 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Okay, technically this is more a movie than a play, but given it’s an adaptation by Nigel Kneale, I’m going to let it off.

A 1983 horror novella written in gothic style by Susan Hill, The Woman in Black concerns a mysterious ghost that haunts an English seaside town, heralding the death of children. Largely an investigation by solicitor Arthur Kipps, it follows his attempts to discover who the mysterious woman he sees around town is. Let’s just say he’s not pleased by the discovery.

Adapted more recently by Hammer Horror with Daniel Radcliffe in the starring role and more famously as a play in the West End, where it’s the longest running show after The Mousetrap, it was adapted for television by Nigel Kneale back in 1989. Despite featuring Adrian Rawlins as an ‘Arthur Kidd’ (sic), it was a considerably more faithful adaptation than the movie or the play. And you can watch it below, preferably in the dark.

Enjoy!

News: Karen Gillan’s Selfie, a Prime Suspect prequel, another CSI, HBO and Showtime renewals + more

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Film casting

Haley Joel Osment joins Entourage

Trailers

Trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy
Trailer for Paddy Considine’s Honour

New UK TV shows

Lynda La Plante writing Prime Suspect prequel

US TV

Netflix acquires: ABC1 Australia’s Rake
HBO renews: Getting On
Showtime renews: House of Lies, Shameless
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Casting on The Vampire Diaries

New US TV shows

The first 12 minutes of SundanceTV’s The Red Road
CSI to get another spin-off
WGN developing Eliot Ness drama

New US TV show casting

Neve Campbell leaves TNT’s Guilt By Association
Deon Cole joins TBS’s Tribeca, plus casting on TNT’s Proof
Karen Gillan to star in ABC’s Selfie
Kal Penn to co-star in CBS’s Battle Creek
Paige Turco joins CBS’s NCIS: New Orleans
Jon Heder to star in Fox comedy
Jacinda Barrett joins Netflix thriller
Don Hany to star in ABC’s Warriors
Greta Lee to co-star in NBC’s Old Soul, Derek Webster to recur on ABC’s The Visitors

News: BBC3 renews Uncle, no Act of Valor TV series and a trailer for Locke with Tom Hardy

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Trailers

Trailer for Locke with Tom Hardy

UK TV

BBC3 renews: Uncle
Sunday ratings

New US TV shows

National Geographic redlights: Act of Valor series

News: BBC3 renews Uncle, no Act of Valor TV series and a trailer for Locke with Tom Hardy

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Trailers

Trailer for Locke with Tom Hardy

UK TV

BBC3 renews: Uncle
Sunday ratings

New US TV shows

National Geographic redlights: Act of Valor series

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News: a new Fantastic Four, a new Kyle Reese and new Mr Selfridge + more

The Wednesday Play: The Woman in Black (1989)

News: Karen Gillan’s Selfie, a Prime Suspect prequel, another CSI, HBO and Showtime renewals + more

News: BBC3 renews Uncle, no Act of Valor TV series and a trailer for Locke with Tom Hardy

News: BBC3 renews Uncle, no Act of Valor TV series and a trailer for Locke with Tom Hardy

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