{"id":6687,"date":"2016-04-22T11:57:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T15:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/bbc-worldwide-scores-global-sales-for-shakespeare-live\/"},"modified":"2016-04-22T12:57:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T16:57:47","slug":"bbc-worldwide-scores-global-sales-for-shakespeare-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2016\/04\/22\/bbc-worldwide-scores-global-sales-for-shakespeare-event\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Worldwide Scores Global Sales for Shakespeare Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: A number of broadcasters in Europe have snapped up the rights for the two-hour event <em>Shakespeare Live! From the RSC<\/em> from BBC Worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The TV rights for <em>Shakespeare Live! From the RSC<\/em> were licensed by Movistar in Spain, NRK in Norway and YLE in Finland, with ARTE in Germany and France also going for the digital rights. The event, hosted by David Tennant and Catherine Tate and featuring such acclaimed actors as Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren and Benedict Cumberbatch, celebrates Shakespeare&#8217;s plays and their lasting influence on various types of performing arts. It\u00a0will broadcast\u00a0live on BBC Two in the U.K. on Saturday, April 23, at 8:30 p.m., and will also\u00a0air\u00a0live in Norway, as well as online in Germany and France.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Worldwide is also bringing the stage show to theaters across Australia, Russia and the U.S. <em>Shakespeare Live! From the RSC<\/em> will broadcast live in cinemas across Russia, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and Kazakhstan. The live recording of the event will screen in select Australian theaters\u00a0on May 6, and on May 23 in the U.S., where it will be titled The Shakespeare Show: Recorded Live from the Royal Shakespeare Company.<\/p>\n<p>Salim Mukaddam, the director of music at BBC Worldwide, commented: \u201cIt\u2019s fantastic to be able to take such world-class content to viewers around the globe. Shakespeare is a fundamental influence on the arts and contemporary culture not just in the U.K. but all around the world. Shakespeare inspired works spanning the musical genres, theater, dance, opera and comedy, and the RSC have created a really spectacular show encapsulating all of this, which global audiences will find enthralling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Shakespeare Live! From the RSC<\/em> is created and directed by RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran, and produced for television by RSC Screen Productions Director John Wyver, BBC Producer Catherine Stirk and Executive Producer Phil Dolling. It\u00a0is distributed internationally by BBC Worldwide and sub-distributed in Australia by Sharmill Films, in the U.S. by Phathom Films, and in Russia by Cool Connections. The event will also be screened live in 368 theaters in the U.K. and Europe by Picturehouse Cinemas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: A number of broadcasters in Europe have snapped up the rights for the two-hour event Shakespeare Live! From the RSC from BBC Worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":6688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[99,492],"class_list":["post-6687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-bbc-worldwide","tag-shakespeare-live-from-the-rsc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BBC Worldwide Scores Global Sales for Shakespeare Event - TVEUROPE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2016\/04\/22\/bbc-worldwide-scores-global-sales-for-shakespeare-event\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BBC Worldwide Scores Global Sales for Shakespeare Event - TVEUROPE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LONDON: A number of broadcasters in Europe have snapped up the rights for the two-hour event Shakespeare Live! From the RSC from BBC Worldwide.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2016\/04\/22\/bbc-worldwide-scores-global-sales-for-shakespeare-event\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVEUROPE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-04-22T15:57:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-04-22T16:57:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/09\/Judi-Dench-ShakespeareLive-BBC-416.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Joanna Padovano Tong\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Joanna Padovano Tong\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2016\/04\/22\/bbc-worldwide-scores-global-sales-for-shakespeare-event\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2016\/04\/22\/bbc-worldwide-scores-global-sales-for-shakespeare-event\/\",\"name\":\"BBC Worldwide Scores Global Sales for Shakespeare Event - TVEUROPE\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-04-22T15:57:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-04-22T16:57:47+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/32988e9e383343ccc4b66993cc2d85e2\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2016\/04\/22\/bbc-worldwide-scores-global-sales-for-shakespeare-event\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2016\/04\/22\/bbc-worldwide-scores-global-sales-for-shakespeare-event\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2016\/04\/22\/bbc-worldwide-scores-global-sales-for-shakespeare-event\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"BBC Worldwide Scores Global Sales for Shakespeare Event\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/\",\"name\":\"TVEUROPE\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/32988e9e383343ccc4b66993cc2d85e2\",\"name\":\"Joanna Padovano Tong\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/author\/simon-weaver-2\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"BBC Worldwide Scores Global Sales for Shakespeare Event - TVEUROPE","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2016\/04\/22\/bbc-worldwide-scores-global-sales-for-shakespeare-event\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"BBC Worldwide Scores Global Sales for Shakespeare Event - TVEUROPE","og_description":"LONDON: A number of broadcasters in Europe have snapped up the rights for the two-hour event Shakespeare Live! From the RSC from BBC Worldwide.","og_url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2016\/04\/22\/bbc-worldwide-scores-global-sales-for-shakespeare-event\/","og_site_name":"TVEUROPE","article_published_time":"2016-04-22T15:57:47+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-04-22T16:57:47+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/09\/Judi-Dench-ShakespeareLive-BBC-416.jpg","width":1,"height":1,"type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Joanna Padovano Tong","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Joanna Padovano Tong","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2016\/04\/22\/bbc-worldwide-scores-global-sales-for-shakespeare-event\/","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2016\/04\/22\/bbc-worldwide-scores-global-sales-for-shakespeare-event\/","name":"BBC Worldwide Scores Global Sales for Shakespeare Event - TVEUROPE","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-04-22T15:57:47+00:00","dateModified":"2016-04-22T16:57:47+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/32988e9e383343ccc4b66993cc2d85e2"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2016\/04\/22\/bbc-worldwide-scores-global-sales-for-shakespeare-event\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2016\/04\/22\/bbc-worldwide-scores-global-sales-for-shakespeare-event\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2016\/04\/22\/bbc-worldwide-scores-global-sales-for-shakespeare-event\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"BBC Worldwide Scores Global Sales for Shakespeare Event"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/","name":"TVEUROPE","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/32988e9e383343ccc4b66993cc2d85e2","name":"Joanna Padovano Tong","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/author\/simon-weaver-2\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}