A Suitable Boy review – a very British, Indian period drama
'This show is just the start': inside the BBC's all-person-of-colour A Suitable Boy
October 2019
Books blog
Sanditon: why are Austen fans so enraged by Andrew Davies' ending?
Sanditon and The Watsons: TV and theatre finish what Austen started
August 2019
Shortcuts
Totally appropriate: why there should be more male nudity in costume dramas
TV review
Sanditon review – every period drama box is ticked
July 2019
Jane Austen's Sanditon 'sexed up' in Andrew Davies adaptation
Screenwriter says he used all the material from Austen’s work in first half of first episode
June 2019
Nothing like a dame or a sir to honour television writers
Richard Brooks
If the Queen is handing out gongs, it’s time British screenwriters were recognised. And when will the National Gallery start to value its staff?
December 2018
TV review
Les Misérables review – merci, Andrew Davies, c'est magnifique
Liberally scattered with talent from Dominic West and David Oyelowo to Lily Collins, this mercifully song-free adaptation was a rich feast to end the year
Les Misérables: episode by episode
Les Misérables episode one recap – it's the big muscle, magnificent trouser show!
How do you rewrite a story everyone knows? With Dominic West as the Incredible Hulk, Derek Jacobi as a pruning bishop – and the Tinder profile from hell
Les Misérables' Andrew Davies: 'I haven't added much sex to it. Sorry to disappoint'
The book-to-TV adaptations to watch this Christmas, from Les Misérables to The Long Song
Les Misérables with 'contemporary relevance' to air on BBC
July 2018
From Les Misérables to Gentleman Jack: the best BBC dramas this autumn
The Beeb has unveiled its slate of shows to debut in September and beyond. Here is our ranking of the most exciting
Books blog
'Quite a bit of nude sunbathing': how will Jane Austen's Sanditon stand up under Andrew Davies' male gaze?
News that the veteran adapter of Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones is turning his hand to the unfinished Sanditon seems out of tune with the times
Jane Austen's unfinished novel Sanditon to be adapted by ITV
Andrew Davies, whose credits include War and Peace and Pride and Prejudice, will bring Austen’s last novel to the small screen
May 2018
Andrew Davies to defend John Updike with Rabbit TV series
TV writer tells Hay festival he aims to ‘wipe out’ idea Updike was a misogynist
July 2017
How to adapt Jane Austen for the screen, with Andrew Davies
How to adapt Jane Austen for the screen with Andrew Davies
November 2016
Andrew Davies: 'I can't control myself'
He may have just turned 80 but he isn’t slowing down. TV’s great adapter comes clean about his best binge-watch, dyeing Colin Firth’s hair – and why his Les Mis will be nothing like the ‘travesty’ of a musical
September 2016
Colin Firth was told to dye hair for Pride and Prejudice as he was 'too ginger'
Screenwriter Andrew Davies reveals star almost missed out on role of Mr Darcy in BBC drama, which launched his career
