He ate wolf meat to get into character: the actor Liam Neeson tells Eve Jackson about his new film and how he's feeling about turning sixty. Also on the programme, a sneak peek of the new Islamic wing of the Louvre museum in Paris, and Azerbaijan's banishment of all foreign soap operas.
“Game Change”, a highly anticipated HBO film about Sarah Palin’s vice presidential bid, hits small screens on March 10. Starring Julianne Moore, the movie has set tongues wagging among former McCain campaign workers.
It was all about the future of US-China relations this week, as Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping made a pivotal four-day visit to the United States. Next, we ask if Burma could be in for a gold-rush, as its political transition comes with new economic opportunities. And in Afghanistan, a new TV show breaks taboos and gives abused women a chance to tell their story...from behind the safety of a mask.
Another journalist has been killed in Pakistan, making it the most dangerous place in the world to work as a reporter. We meet the courageous men and women putting their lives at risk. We then join the campaign trail with the man who could be the next prime minister of India, Rahul Gandhi. Finally, families separated under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia are brought back together thanks to the latest reality TV show there.
One year after a poll that kicked off months of post-electoral violence, Ivory Coast gets ready to vote once again. Next, we look at what happens to African immigrants caught as they try to sneak into Europe. Many end up in limbo in a country that is not their own. Finally, in Burkina Faso, a wave of home-grown TV shows has replaced Brazilian telenovelas as the new favourites of the African small screen.
Are TV shows cashing in on novels? The memoirs of Jerry Della Femina ("From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbour") take us back to the advertising world at the dawn of the 1960s. Martinis, cigarettes and womanizing - here's where the TV craze "Mad Men" all started. But "God Hates Us All" takes spin-offs to the extreme: the book was written for fans of the show "Californication" and fictional character Hank Moody is its supposed author.
In honour of FRANCE 24's fifth birthday this week, Tech 24 goes behind the scenes in the newsroom to bring you an inside view of how the channel manages its large and growing social network feeds. Also, a sneak peek at interactive television and how FRANCE 24 is using this technology to reach even larger audiences around the world.
MEDIAWATCH, Fri., 10/11/2011: One moment of forgetfulness may well have cost Rick Perry his presidential ambitions. We take a look at the man who would be president who couldn't remember a list of three...
China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television published an order in state media Thursday saying that it would limit the number of reality shows, variety shows and other TV shows that threaten "core socialist values".
From The Sopranos to Dr Who and Sex and the City, we all have our favourites. We talk TV series secrets with journalist and author Nils Ahl. Also, after once dismissing it as 'posh bingo', the author Julian Barnes wins one of the world's most prestigious literary prizes, the Man Booker. Our literary critic Augustin Trapenard joins us to discuss the prize. And did Vincent Van Gogh really kill himself? A new theory on the artist's death emerges.
