Much Ado About Nothing
- Alternative title
- Shakespeare Re-Told Shakespeare Retold
- Synopsis
- A modern television interpretation of Shakespeare’s play, with contemporary dialogue, presented as a screwball comedy and set in a provincial newsroom. Beatrice and Benedick discuss and analyse Sonnet 116 in the course of the drama.
- Series
- Shakespeare-Told
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Television; Video
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Year of release
- 2005
- Transmission details
- 7 Nov 2005 at 18:30 (Channel: BBC1)
- Duration
- 90 mins
Credits
- Director
- Brian Percival
- Producer
- Diederick Santer
- Writer
- David Nicholls
- Cast
Additional Details
- Production type
- Television and Radio Drama
- Historical period
- Contemporary
- Plays
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- Notes
- Combined on 1 DVD with the other three dramas in the series. DVD extras include cast interviews and filmographies; Shakespeare biography; Shakespeare on Film; picture gallery. Also available as a download from BBC Store
- History
- Shown on BBC America in August 2006.
- Reviews
- Wray, Ramona ‘Shakespeare and the Singletons, or, Beatrice meets Bridget Jones: Post Feminism, Popular Culture and Shakespea(Re)-Told’ in Burnett, Mark Thornton & Wray, Ramona (eds) Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. (pp 185-205).
`This woefully scripted entry in the BBC’s ShakespeaRe-Told series of modernised adaptations places Much Ado...into an inhospitable new environment and reduces it to a mirthless amalgam of second-rate sitcom and soap opera’ Rosenthal, Daniel. 100 Shakespeare Films (London: BFI, 2007), p. 158.
Online Availability
- Online URL
- https://store.bbc.com/shakespeare-told
- Online price
- £3.99
- Online format
- Download
Production Company
Archive
- Name
Learning on Screen Off-Air Recording Back-up Service
- services@bufvc.ac.uk
- Web
- http://bufvc.ac.uk/tvandradio/offair External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7393 1514
- Fax
- 020 7393 1555
- Address
- For Learning on Screen Members only
77 Wells Street
London
W1T 3QJ
Distributor
- Name
Acorn Media UK
- customerservices@acorndvd.com
- Web
- http://www.acorndvd.com/ External site opens in new window
- Fax
- 020 7627 250
- Address
- 55 Drury Lane
London
WC2B 5SQ - Notes
- Founded in 1997, Acorn specialises in distributing archival television programmes, predominantly licensed from the BBC and ITV. Sale on DVD and Blu-Ray, in Region 2 PAL format, direct and via retail outlets.
- Name
BBC Store
- Web
- https://store.bbc.com/ External site opens in new window
- Notes
- NB. From May 2017 programmes are no longer available to buy on BBC Store. From November 1st 2017 the store will close completely and programmes bought from BBC Store will no longer be available to watch. Customers who have bought items from BBC Store will be contacted by email and refunded for their purchases either by full cash refund or Amazon video vouchers.
Distributor (Sale)
- Name
Retail outlets
Online Retailer
- Name
Moviemail
- Web
- https://www.simplyhe.com/3000-moviemail External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 0844 848 2000
- Address
- Simply Home Entertainment
PO Box 7741
Ringwood
BH24 9FA
UK - Notes
- As of December 2016 the Moviemail web presence is incorporated within the Simply Media website
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av36439 (Accessed 12 Nov 2024)