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Search this site. Navigation Sitemap. I'd never really been a ballet child so I had no idea what an incredibly huge icon she was, not just in terms of a creative icon — she was also a style icon. I had no idea she was up there with Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Onassis in terms of that kind of image. Her life was incredible. But I was incredibly lucky — I was trained by Michael Nunn and William Trevitt [ex Royal Ballet dancers and founders of the Ballet Boyz], very well respected dancers and filmmakers — they worked myself and Michiel [Hausman, who plays Nureyev] really, really hard, every day, hours and hours and hours, until we could reach a stage where we'd be able to get away with certain things.

If the BBC wanted to banish memories of Channel 4's rather lacklustre recent drama about Elizabeth I rushed out, so the rumours go, once execs there got wind of the BBC's plans to take on the subject then it succeeds in the opening scenes of the Virgin Queen to be shown on BBC1 later this month. Frenetic, menacing and beautifully filmed, the opening minutes of the drama takes viewers headlong into a world of Tudor intrigue and threat as Mary I's henchmen approach the imprisoned young Princess Elizabeth who only remembers at the last minute to get her lady in waiting to sling over her Rosary bead to try and persuade her half sister's spies and heavies of her devotion to Roman Catholicism. The BBC head of drama Jane Tranter joked before last night's screening that if Channel 4 had not shown its drama late last year, then hacks and assembled guests would have enjoyed a more lavish launch at the Tower of London. It was a joke, but it belied a degree of bad feeling about the Channel 4 commission that lingers at the BBC.

As political turmoil rumbles through Russia, Doctor Zhivago is trapped in a love triangle between his wife and his mistress. Meanwhile, the Bolshevik Revolution will change all their lives forever in this miniseries remake of the classic film. Details about Doctor Zhivago. This biopic chronicles how the shrewd Virgin Queen assumed the throne of a nation in turmoil, stabilized the economy, earned her subjects' devotion and manipulated a succession of suitors to political advantage.

Take a look at our Coming Soon articles for the months of July and June. Here are a few of the many options August has to offer when it comes to film and TV — and, yes, dragons are coming — thanks to a little show called House of the Dragon. Gaiman also serves as an executive producer, and he co-wrote the pilot of this ten-episode season with showrunner Allan Heinberg Wonder Woman and executive producer David S.