Jack Thorne
‘Adolescence’ Review: Netflix’s Taut One-Shot Legal Thriller Is More Than Its Gimmick
Philip Barantini directs the four-part series about a teenage boy accused of murder, with each episode playing out in a single, continuous take.
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‘Joy’ Review: Thomasin McKenzie, James Norton and Bill Nighy Lift Netflix’s Pedestrian Drama About IVF-Pioneering Brits
Ben Taylor directs Jack Thorne’s screenplay chronicling the dogged progress in the 1960s and ‘70s of the team behind an important breakthrough in medical science.
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‘Doctor Who’ Executive Producer Russell T. Davies to Mentor Welsh Drama Writers in Bad Wolf Program
Jane Tranter’s production firm launches the Blaidd Writers Program for three creatives to develop an original, contemporary Wales-set drama, with Jack Thorne and Marnie Dickens also mentoring.
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Critic’s Notebook: ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ Gives the Fanbase What They Want With Audacious Style
With the Duffer Brothers on board as "creative producers," Netflix's 'Stranger Things' arrives on London's West End with a three-hour, effects-driven stage spectacle spinning a new origin story for the nefarious Vecna.
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‘His Dark Materials’ Star Dafne Keen on Taking on an ”Intricate, Complicated” Female Character
Members of the creative team behind the BBC and HBO hit show also shared exclusive clips from the upcoming third part of the trilogy.
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Sharon Horgan, Michael Sheen to Lead Jack Thorne’s Disability Drama ‘Best Interests’ for BBC, Endeavor Content
The four-part drama will tell the emotional story of a family forced to make choices no parent would ever want make.
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Banijay’s Head of Scripted Lars Blomgren on Keeping 50+ Labels Happy and the Impact of Jack Thorne’s Edinburgh Lecture
Speaking ahead of his appearance in the Berlinale Series program, the Swedish TV veteran reveals how issues with mental health in the industry are being turned around and used as a selling point.
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London Film Festival Industry Program to Include Talks With ‘Succession’ Writer, ‘Normal People’ Producer
Edward Enninful, Ed Guiney, Jess Search, Lucy Prebble, Steven Knight and Jack Thorne are among those taking part in the 2021 LFF industry program, which will combine in-person talks with online access.
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‘His Dark Materials,’ ‘The Eddy’ Writer Jack Thorne: “TV Has Failed Disabled People”
The prolific screenwriter used his keynote MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival to take aim at how the British TV industry has dealt with disability on and off screen.
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‘The Secret Garden’: Film Review
Newcomer Dixie Egerickx plays Mary Lennox in this latest version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic of English children’s literature 'The Secret Garden,' which also stars Colin Firth and Julie Walters.
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‘The Eddy’: TV Review | Berlin 2020
Andre Holland, Joanna Kulig and Amandla Stenberg star in 'The Eddy,' Damien Chazelle's Netflix series about a Paris jazz club.
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How the Writer of Broadway’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ Found His Modern-Day Scrooge — in Trump
Jack Thorne, the writer of Broadway's 'A Christmas Carol,' spoke to Billboard about adapting the iconic story and the correlations between Scrooge and President Donald Trump.
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