I’m a Zionist who often walks through the campus of Columbia University, which since October 7 means I feel like Dr. Evil in a frumpy sweater. The protest chant du jour is “Min el-maiyeh lel mayieh, ...

The battle of the costume dramas kicked off in earnest this weekend with Andrew Davies' adaption of Daniel Deronda on BBC1 on Saturday and ITV1's Dr Zhivago - also scripted by Davies - on Sunday.

“Daniel Deronda,” George Eliot’s final novel, is such a long (849 pages), complex work, I could not see how it could possibly be squeezed into a 3 1/2-hour time frame on PBS’ “Masterpiece Theatre” ...

This weekend sees the start of two serious television dramas: George Eliot's Daniel Deronda on BBC1, and Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago on ITV1. Both have been adapted by Andrew Davies. Despite in ...

Daniel Deronda: Two-part "Masterpiece Theatre" presentation. Starring Hugh Dancy and Romola Garai. 9 p.m. Sunday and Monday, KQED. As "Masterpiece Theatre" continues its prolonged cha-cha through all ...

Daniel Deronda, George Eliot's final novel, published in 1876, has always been thought unfilmable. Its predecessors, Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss and Adam Bede, have made it-several times, in ...

THEODORA, one day early in the autumn, sat on her piazza with a piece of embroidery, the design of which she invented as she proceeded, being careful, however, to have a Japanese screen before her, to ...

A reported schedule clash between the BBC's Daniel Deronda and ITV's Zhivago eventually gave way but the two costume dramas seem alarmingly similar. It was to be the great drama clash of the year: the ...