MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: The Crown must stop dressing up dangerous fiction as the truth By Mail On Sunday Comment For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:35 GMT, 29 November 2020 | Updated: 01:35 GMT, 29 November 2020 In an age when many know nothing of the past – and the day before yesterday is … Read more
Oliver Dowden last night demanded that Netflix make clear The Crown is ‘fiction’. In a dramatic intervention, the Culture Secretary added his voice to mounting concern that fabricated scenes in the drama series were so damaging to the Royal Family that viewers should be warned at the start of each episode that it was not … Read more
A powerful coalition of politicians, Royal experts and a close friend of Prince Charles last night backed calls for Netflix to broadcast a disclaimer warning viewers of The Crown that many key scenes never happened or are distortions of the truth. The streaming giant is facing mounting criticism for fabricating a string of controversial incidents … Read more
From Jonathan Lethem’s eerily timely tale to The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey, an inventive novel by Kikuko Tsumura and Michael Connelly’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Tom Payne and Hephzibah Anderson and Madeleine Feeny and John Williams Published: 22:01 GMT, 21 November 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 21 November 2020 The Arrest … Read more
Proof that TV audiences ARE believing the fiction of Netflix series The Crown? Online commenters believe Charles and Camilla conducted affair throughout his relationship with Diana (except he didn’t) Dozens of critics have said parts of The Crown series were a distortion of truth But many have accepted fake storylines on Charles, Camilla and Diana … Read more
Princess Diana’s brother has revealed he refused permission for Netflix to film The Crown at their family’s stately home in order to protect her memory. Earl Spencer says he was approached by the programme’s makers to use the Althorp estate in Northamptonshire as a location but said no because the drama is so factually inaccurate and … Read more
From Carys Bray’s weighty novel to Olga by Bernhard Schlink, a short story collection by Nicole Krauss and H. B. Lyle’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Eithne Farry and Anthony Cummins and Hephzibah Anderson and John Williams Published: 22:01 GMT, 14 November 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 14 November 2020 When The Lights … Read more
From Polly Crosby’s promising debut to The Searcher by Tana French, a compelling conclusion by Louis de Bernières and Anne Youngson’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Anthony Gardner and Madeleine Feeny and John Williams Published: 22:01 GMT, 7 November 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 7 November 2020 The Illustrated Child … Read more
From Jonathan Coe’s love letter to Billy Wilder to Shelter In Place by David Leavitt, a dystopian novella by Don DeLillo and William Hjortsberg’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Neil Armstrong and Jeffrey Burke and Max Davidson and John Williams Published: 22:01 GMT, 31 October 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 31 October 2020 … Read more
From Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s coming-of-age novel to Mr Cadmus by Peter Ackroyd, a gripping story by Phil Klay and Ian Rankin’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Gwendolyn Smith and Anthony Cummins and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine and John Williams Published: 22:00 GMT, 24 October 2020 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 24 October 2020 … Read more