If one thing about Tess of the d'Urbervilles sticks with me it is the haunting, dare I say menacing, d'Urberville gaze. A race lost to time, the d'Urberville gaze manages to live on, in the family's ...

Tess of the D’Urbervilles has what Gavin & Stacey’s Ruth Jones, corseted and barely recognisable as Tess’s mother in BBC1’s new four-part adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s tale, calls the ‘what if? factor’ ...

BBC Drama Productions have announced full cast details of the forthcoming drama Tess Of The D'Urbervilles for BBC One. Gemma Arterton (James Bond: Quantum Of Solace, St Trinian's) stars as Tess, the ...

A lavish BBC film of Tess of the D'Urbervilles heralds a new generation of Thomas Hardy adaptations. Sally Williams reports from the location in Dorset on a sexually charged thriller disguised as a ...

David Nicholls (Starter For Ten, Much Ado About Nothing) has penned a new four-part adaptation of Thomas Hardy's tragic and well-loved novel, Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, for transmission in autumn 2008 ...

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The remains of the real-life Tess of the d’Urbervilles have been found beneath a prison by archaeologists, it has been claimed. Martha Brown died in August 1856, in a public hanging that was witnessed ...

John Durbeyfield (Ian Puleston-Davies), a "haggler" and a drunk, is weaving his way one afternoon towards the pub when he meets the village priest, Parson Tringham (Donald Sumpter). The priest informs ...

Ready to watch Tess of the D'Urbervilles? This 2008 Drama series is available to watch right now. It's currently streaming on Britbox Apple TV channel and The Roku Channel. If you'd like to own it ...

The title character in this faithful retelling of Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel suffers (and suffers, and then suffers some more) for her beauty, which at times can make an otherwise-sumptuous production ...