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Showing posts with label Television. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Medieval Cures, Archaeological Finds, and The Quest: Medieval News Roundup

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Some of the interesting news about the Middle Ages that have come out in recent days: [ View the story "Medicines, Archaeology and T...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Armour on Bodies, Divergent Bodies, and what it takes to have a volcano named after you

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Our latest medieval news roundup, including a few articles, archaeology news, tweets about upcoming conferences, the next medieval TV show, ...
Friday, April 11, 2014

What does a medieval literature scholar see in 'Game of Thrones?'

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From PBS Newshour: Brantley Bryant, associate professor of medieval literature at Sonoma State University, shares what he sees of The Ca...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Interview with Michael Hirst, creator of Vikings

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This month's issue of DUJOUR has a feature interview with Michael Hirst, the creator and writer of the hit TV series Vikings , by Nancy...
Friday, September 06, 2013

Doomsday Castle: When crazy people build a castle and we get to see it on TV

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The National Geographic Channel has come up with a TV show that blends the medieval with the modern world by... having an American family bu...
Friday, June 21, 2013

Gutenberg, Executions, Medicis, Vikings, Hobbits and more - medieval news roundup

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A medieval news roundup for the weekend... If you are a fan of Marshall McLuhan or have an interest in the history of printing, this int...
Monday, December 10, 2012

Rome's Lost Empire, BBC One, review

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Iain Hollingshead reviews Rome's Lost Empire, BBC One's one-off documentary in which Dan Snow uses satellite technology to identify ...
Monday, October 29, 2012

Time Team to end in 2013

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The television show that showed off the archaeological riches on the United Kingdom will be coming to an end in 2013. Time Team, which ran ...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

New details released about ‘Vikings’ television series

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The producers of Vikings , a historical-drama to air in 2013, have released new details about the show, including more about the plot and t...
Friday, March 30, 2012

Game of Thrones as History

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By Kelly DeVries For half a century, fantasy has essentially been a series of footnotes to Tolkien. Until George R.R. Martin, that is. Mar...
Friday, March 16, 2012

New TV drama – “Vikings” – to be filmed in Ireland and Northern Europe

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The History Channel in the US and History Television in Canada have announced they will be airing a scripted drama series, Vikings. The seri...
Monday, March 12, 2012

White Rock company takes a siege approach to history

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A small White Rock-based feature-type documentary film producer believes her company's latest series Battle Castle will help take it to ...
Saturday, March 10, 2012

Tweeting History: Social Media meets Mummies and Moats

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Last week, dozens of Toronto-area bloggers gathered at a local bar, bringing with them their iPhones and Blackberries. Amidst watching Vikin...
Thursday, March 08, 2012

Fresh take on medieval castles: Series explores historical sites and how they stood up in times of war

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This medieval battle started centuries ago on England's Dover cliffs, but it was finished - in a manner of speaking - at an Abbotsford f...
Thursday, March 01, 2012

‘Battle Castle’ lays siege on-air and online

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Vancouver’s Parallax Film Productions has done everything in its considerable power to push the boundaries of Real TV with their series Batt...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

Try Medieval Hot Pants? Surely, You Joust

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Television shows will do almost anything to generate publicity, but it would not be correct to say that the people at the History channel lo...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Season 2 of Museum Secrets Premieres this week!

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Museum Secrets, the Canadian television show that explores museums from around the world returns for a second season on History Television, ...
Wednesday, January 04, 2012

BBC show on The Private Lives Of The Medieval Kings to begin airing next week

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In Illuminations: The Private Lives of the Medieval Kings BBC Four will tell the story of the Medieval monarchy as preserved through stunnin...
Monday, December 12, 2011

New trailer for Game of Thrones Season 2

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Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Yorkshire medieval church’s star role

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Being Vicar of Halifax must be exhausting, but tomorrow’s episode of Songs of Praise has re-charged the batteries of the hugely energetic ho...