A local news version of ‘Much Ado About Nothing’
Steve Safran August 6th, 2006
How perfect is this? BBC America has a series called “ShakespeRe-Told” in which it takes stories by The Bard and updates them for our time. (No “thee-” and “thou-”speak, just plot tributes.) This week, it’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” set in an English local TV newsroom. Beatrice and Benedick are now bickering co-hosts, Hero does the weather, her father is the producer, and her suitor, Claudio (now “Claude”), gives us sports. “The Comedy of Errors” would have worked for some newscasts I’ve produced as well.
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1. Max Preston | August 7th, 2006 at 1:25 am
Max here - LR’s unofficial London correspondent. This aired a year or so over here, and all I can say is set your Tivos, watch it “live” if you can. It was absolutely brilliant and not to be missed!
2. Scott Matthewman | August 7th, 2006 at 3:14 am
I have to agree with Max — Much Ado… was a delight when first showed over here. Unfortunately, I found that the other reinterpretations in the series didn’t fare nearly as well.
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