Mystery books, for me, divide themselves into two kinds. One kind— Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes —is all about restoring ...

'The Name of the Rose' screenwriter Andrew Birkin talks to The Hollywood Reporter about Sean Connery's most un-James Bond role, as medieval friar William of Baskerville. "Bond was a man of action.

It may be a coincidence that a new television adaptation of Umberto Eco’s 1980 medieval ecclesiastic detective novel “The Name of the Rose” begins the same week that HBO’s “Game of Thrones” finished ...

BBC Two's medieval murder mystery The Name of the Rose has arrived to liven up your Friday evenings, and this classic story arose from one of the best-selling novels of all time. The book on which the ...

The TV adaptation of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose is set to make its debut on BBC Two, and with the help of a stellar cast, the historical murder mystery has been brilliantly reimagined. The ...

John Turturro and the producers of “The Name of the Rose” unveiled their ambitious English-language TV adaptation of Umberto Eco’s murder mystery in Rome on Thursday ahead of its global rollout, which ...

French company Mediawan has acquired a majority stake in Palomar, the leading independent Italian production outfit behind the cop show “Inspector Montalbano” and the highly anticipated series “The ...

It may be a coincidence that a new television adaptation of Umberto Eco’s 1980 medieval ecclesiastic detective novel “The Name of the Rose” begins the same week that HBO’s “Game of Thrones” finished ...

Like its predecessor, the latest attempt to turn Umberto Eco's novel 'The Name of the Rose' into a coherent screen drama falls flat. By Tim Goodman Anyone with a cursory understanding of The Name of ...

In 1980, an Italian semiotics professor named Umberto Eco published one of those rare literary unicorns, a work of genius that nonetheless didn’t curl up and die of obscurity. The Name of the Rose, a ...