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Another ‘Ebenezer’ trailer
Read More: Another ‘Ebenezer’ trailerParamount has released a second trailer for Ti West’s Ebenezer. This one makes the film look a fairly straightforward retelling of the story with a few added antics from Johnny Depp, which makes me curious about all the effort that the studio put into making it sound like something new. Either the PR department doesn’t…
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‘A Tale of Two Cities’ (2026), Episode 4: ‘Resurrection Man’
Of all the egregious changes the final installment of this series makes in the story, and…
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‘A Tale of Two Cities’ (2026), Episode 3: ‘Mother’s Ruin’
At one point in this episode, while swilling gin with Sydney Carton, Charles Darnay remarks that…
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‘Dickens and His Older People’: A review
By Danny Kuhn, guest blogger Dickens and His Older People: The Portrayal of Older Adult Characters…
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‘A Tale of Two Cities’ (2026), Episode 2: ‘Malunion’
Unlike “Recalled to Life,” the title of Episode 2 was not taken from Dickens’s novel. I…
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‘A Tale of Two Cities’ (2026), Episode 1: ‘Recalled to Life’
In the first episode of A Tale of Two Cities on MGM+, Charles Darnay is smuggling…
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A not-so-bad Scrooge?
Ti West, director of the upcoming Ebenezer, tells Entertainment Weekly : “In other adaptations, Scrooge is…
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All-star ‘A Christmas Carol’ reading for charity
On December 7 at London’s Lyric Theatre, a cast of celebrities will do a reading of…
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R.I.P. Tim Curry
Did you know acclaimed British actor Tim Curry had Dickens connections? I had forgotten it myself,…
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MGM+ releases ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ trailer
And here it is! First thoughts: –They’re bringing Sydney in earlier and giving him much more…
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‘The Artful Dodger’ gets one more season
The Hulu/Disney+ show about the Artful Dodger’s life in Australia has been renewed for a third…
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‘Copperfield!’ off-Broadway
Copperfield!, a new musical version of David Copperfield with book, lyrics, and music by Jeffrey Scharf,…
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New trailer and poster for ‘Ebenezer’
This week, Paramount Pictures released the poster, trailer, and a couple of stills from Ti West’s…
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‘Hard Times’ for these times
British historian Anthony Seldon argues that Hard Times is “the most important 19th-century novel for today’s…
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On this day
Today marks the 156th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s death. As The Times wrote in its obituary…
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‘Dickens on Screen’ virtual event tomorrow
This Dickens Society event is free to attend online, but you have to register before tomorrow!…
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Is Dickens offensive?
I published a piece in Plough this week about why so many of us still love…
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Sean Astin and Calvin Kassab to star in ‘Scrooge-inspired’ film
Kassab is the latest actor to sign on to play Scrooge, or a version of him.…
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Dickens on the ‘Guardian’ top 100 list
On the much-discussed new list from The Guardian of the 100 greatest novels published in English,*…
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Limited off-Broadway run for ‘Edwin Drood’
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Rupert Holmes’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood musical, the J2…
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Two new images and a time frame for ‘A Tale of Two Cities’
We haven’t got a release date for the new miniseries yet, but we do at least…
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Call for papers: “Dickens on Screen” virtual event
The Dickens Society is inviting short papers for this event, to be held online on June…
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New novel looks at Dickens and Andersen
Released today, Francine Prose’s new novel, Five Weeks in the Country, tells the story of Hans…
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TCM alert
David Lean’s Oliver Twist (1948) airs today (Saturday) at 2:15 p.m. Eastern on the channel, and…
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First look images released for ‘A Tale of Two Cities’
We have four new stills of Kit Harington as Sydney Carton, Francois Civil as Charles Darnay,…
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New BBC 3-part series on Dickens
Later this year, BBC Two and iPlayer will air a limited series on Dickens. It will…
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Doings at the Dickens Museum
The Charles Dickens Museum recently opened a new exhibition titled “Extra/Ordinary Women,” to “celebrate the real…
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Happy 214th birthday, Mr. Dickens!
It’s Charles Dickens’s birthday, and his descendants — along with the rest of us Dickensians —…
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First look at Johnny Depp as Scrooge
People has a couple of photos from the London set of Ti West’s new Christmas Carol…
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Dickens Day of Writing seeks mentors
The annual Dickens Day of Writing is fast approaching! The event, which “is both a writing…
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Trailer and release date for ‘Artful Dodger’ season 2
The second season of the Australian series about the Dodger’s adult life comes to Hulu and…
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R.I.P. Michael Slater
Michael Slater, who passed away November 27 at age 88, was a former president of the…
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I have way the miniseries countless times and the explanation I came away with from the miniseries had me thinking…
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