THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON: Creator Sara Collins on new Britbox miniseries – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/10/2023
THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON Key Art | ©2023 Britbox

THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON is a four-part British miniseries, which premieres on BritBox on March 8. Based on the novel by Sara Collins, THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON stars Karla-Simone Spence as Frannie, a young, educated Black Jamaican woman who is brought to England in the 1820s. Technically free, Frannie’s gender and race both make it next to impossible for her to refuse employment as a maid in the London household of wealthy George Benham (Stephen Campbell Moore). Then Frannie falls in love with George’s wife Marguerite (Sophie Cookson). Marguerite reciprocates Frannie’s feelings, though their romance is necessarily cloaked […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: THE HOUR star Romola Garai talks Season 2 of the BBC America series

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/27/2012
Romola Garai in THE HOUR - Series 2 | ©2012 BBC America

In THE HOUR, now in its second season on BBC America, Wednesdays at 9 PM, it’s the late 1950s. Romola Garai’s character Bel Rowley, who lost her job as producer of the news show “The Hour” at the end of Season One, has been reinstated. Her former lover and current problem associate Hector Madden (Dominic West) has been her anchorman but seems to be moving to another network, while erstwhile best friend and key investigator Freddie Lyon (Ben Whishaw) has returned with new wife in tow to take a news anchor job. They’re all neck-deep in a new mystery. Garai, […]Read On »


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CD Review: JANE EYRE soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 04/09/2011
JANE EYRE soundtrack | ©2011 Sony

Such composers as Bernard Herrmann, John Williams and Richard Harvey have dared to see what lies hidden in the stone walls of Edward Rochester’s keep in the twenty and counting EYRE adaptations that have been done for film and television over the last ninety or so years. Now it’s Dario Marianelli’s turn to light the candle and venture through the dauntingly gloomy halls and wind-swept moors in this beautifully done, if somewhat still-life production that takes a more realistic approach to Charlotte Bronte’s now-eternal 1847 story of female oppression and empowerment. With the shining light radiating from Marianelli’s Oscar for […]Read On »


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