TV Find above the trailer for the The Hollow Crown: The War of the Roses with Camberwell Bandersnatch's Richard III foregrounded. Publicity for the BBC Shakespeare Festival is gaining ground with the BBC Shakespeare at the epicentre of publicity although I can't help feeling that in the olden days there would have been a blog and/or RSS feed keeping abreast of everything Shakespearean appearing on the BBC website. No, no, don't look at me. I'm busy.
This week's episodes of daytime soap Doctors has a Shakespeare theme, with each episode inspired by a sonnet and with a scene shot at the RSC. I'll give you that at least.
Anyway, here's a trailer for the rest of the televisual offer for the festival:
— BBC (@BBC) April 15, 2016Though I expect they'll repeat a fair amount of the programming from the last BBC Shakespeare Festival four years ago. And Shakespeare Retold. And The Bard on the Box. These things are coming around with increasing rapidity. Perhaps in two years we'll have a redo of Spread of the Eagle?
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