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Len Blavatnik and Ruben Dishdishyan producing.

An Media has reported a strong response to its AFM action thriller Mira with multiple territory sales led by the US, Germany, Australia and South Korea in the latest example of the longer deal-making tail at markets.

Germany-based Capelight Pictures has acquired rights for the US, Germany and Australia, while Korea Screen will distribute in South Korea and Cine Y Video in Latin America. An Media is continuing talks for other territories.

Dmitry Kiselev (Spacewalker) directs Mira, which centres on Lera, the 15-year-old daughter of an astronaut, Arabov, who left many years ago on...

Len Blavatnik and Ruben Dishdishyan producing.

An Media has reported a strong response to its AFM action thriller Mira with multiple territory sales led by the US, Germany, Australia and South Korea in the latest example of the longer deal-making tail at markets.

Germany-based Capelight Pictures has acquired rights for the US, Germany and Australia, while Korea Screen will distribute in South Korea and Cine Y Video in Latin America. An Media is continuing talks for other territories.

Dmitry Kiselev (Spacewalker) directs Mira, which centres on Lera, the 15-year-old daughter of an astronaut, Arabov, who left many years ago on...

(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they've been watching, why it's worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)

The series: "A Young Doctor's Notebook"

Where you can stream it: Tubi

The pitch: Based on the short story collection of the same name by Mikhail Bulgakov, "A Young Doctor's Notebook" is a limited British television series about a freshly graduated doctor (Daniel Radcliffe) working at a rural hospital in Russia who is visited by visions of his older self (Jon Hamm). The first series/season is set in 1917 during the Russian Revolution, while the second is set a year later, during the resulting Russian...

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Morphine (Morphia) Mubi Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net, linked from Rotten Tomatoes by Harvey Karten Director: Aleksey Balabanov Screenwriter: Sergey Bodrov, from short stories by Mikhail A. Bulgakov Cast: Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Andrey Panin, Svetlana Pismichenko, Katarina Radivojevic, Yuri Gertsman, Aleksandr Mosin Screened at: Mubi.com The folks in the rural Russia of 1917 may […]

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Exclusive: German actor August Diehl, whose credits include The Young Karl Marx, Inglourious Basterds and A Hidden Life, has signed on to play the lead role in big-budget Russian drama Woland.

The $15M project is a loose adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s classic novel The Master and Margarita, one of the most read books in Russia’s history. Michael Lockshin (Silver Skates) is directing from a screenplay by Roman Kantor and Michael Lockshinbased.

Starring alongside Diehl are Yulia Snigir and Evgeniy Tsyganov. Set in Moscow in the 1930s, the film will weave together the novel’s narrative with Bulgakov’s own history in Russia. It will follow a promising young writer who at the height of his career finds himself in the middle of a scandal of both literary and political nature – his new novel is being crushed by harsh idealistic critics, who say that his vivid depiction of Christ...

Including Charles Bukowski, Mikhail Bulgakov, Lao Tzu, and more.

Once I Was A Dragonfly was selected from 10 works in progress presented to the festival’s jury.

Producer-director Elli Toivoniemi’s feature documentary debut Once I Was A Dragonfly received the Best Pitch Award at this year’s Finnish Film Affair (Sept 22-24) in Helsinki.

The new $3,400 (€3,000) award, which was sponsored by the Finnish Film Foundation for use in the film’s international marketing, was decided by a three-person jury made up of Fortissimo Films’ Berenice Fugard, Robert Burke of TenOne Entertainment and La-based critic Barbara Gasser.

Announcing the winner on Wednesday evening, Gasser said that it had been a “tough decision” to make the final choice from the 10 works in progress, but Toivoniemi’s film boasted “stunning visuals” and was “a story we could also relate to”.

The $224,000 (€200,000) Tuffi Films production centres on 24-year-old Miikka Friman’s lifelong fascination with dragonflies from the tender age of six and the decisions he must take as the obligations...

Mike Downey warns the film-making community of imminent sentence for Oleg Sentsov at Sarajevo Film Festival awards ceremony

At the Sarajevo Film Festival awards ceremony last night (Aug 22), UK producer and Efa deputy chairman Mike Downey warned the film-making community of the latest development in the trial of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov.

Russian state prosecutor Oleg Tkachenko has called for Sentsov to be sentenced to 23 years imprisonment in a high-security penal colony, despite the retraction of key witness testimony on July 31.

During Sff’s awards ceremony, Downey took to the stage and read a statement about the imminent sentence for Sentsov, accused with plotting terrorist acts in Crimea.

“Oleg Sentsov, arrested after the annexation of Crimea and subsequent protests, and imprisoned without trial in Lefortovo prison in Moscow, was severely tortured before being charged with terrorism offences he and his lawyers say are imaginary,” Downey read.

“This week at the summing up of his trial the defiant...

Chicago – Every red-blooded American has been told the story of the “Miracle on Ice,” the 1980 Winter Olympic upset of the mighty Soviet Union hockey team by Team USA. But who were the Soviet players? Why were they the best in the world? Director Gabe Polsky explores these questions in the documentary “Red Army.”

What makes “Red Army” such an exceptional film is the morality of it. The Soviet hockey team was playing for more in virtually every category. They had more pride, more skill, more strategy, more love-of-nationalism and more focus than any other team in the world. The story of these “mores” is magnificently told by Gabe Polsky, a filmmaker whose parents emigrated from Russia. The story also, interestingly enough, tells of the collapse of the Soviet Union, and what that meant for those hockey players, who were now stuck in a different performance mode and world.

Part of...

This Halloween, Daniel Radcliffe will return to theaters in the fantasy-horror thriller Horns. But it turns out that the Harry Potter actor's true love is history, and he's looking to explore this interest with two enticing docudramas. What's more, he's going the extra mile to make sure that he's doing the material justice. In an engaging interview with Mental Floss, Daniel Radcliffe offered his thoughts on various intellectual curiosities and interests, from reality TV (he loves Top Chef) to his favorite book (Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita). But it came to a simple question about his latest endeavor--teaching himself Japanese--that led to an unexpected update on Tokyo Vice. Radcliffe reports: "I.m trying to learn Japanese. Just to speak. There.s a film I hope to do called Tokyo Vice that has Japanese lines that my character speaks, and he.s supposed to be fairly fluent. I could...

The critically acclaimed limited series A Young Doctor’s Notebook and Other Stories, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm, returns in the coming weeks for Season 2 on Ovation. Inspired by the works of Russian novelist Mikhail Bulgakov and set in the small village of Muryevo in 1918, the Young Doctor (Radcliffe) is battling an all-consuming morphine addiction and struggles to cope with life in the hospital and the efforts of his medical staff, under the critical gaze of his older self (Hamm). As part of the Ovation presentation at the TCA Press Tour, Daniel Radcliffe spoke via satellite from New York, where he’s starring on Broadway in the hit production of The Cripple of Inishmaan, about why this four-episode series appealed to him, how flattering it is to have Jon Hamm playing the older version of him, what it’s like to do some of the more intimate scenes with his co-star,...

Daniel Radcliffe heads to cable's Ovation later this summer for the premiere of the second season of "A Young Doctor's Notebook and Other Stories," which he co-stars in with Jon Hamm.

The first season of the drama, which is inspired by the works of Russian novelist Mikhail Bulgakov, saw the two actors (who play the same part, just different ages), in a variety of close quarters - including a bathtub. And Season 2 will feature the pair dancing together. Appearing via satellite (from NYC) at the Television Critics Association Summer Tour in Beverly Hills, Daniel explained the two actors ...

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Moviefone's Top DVD of the Week

"Like Father, Like Son"

What's It About? Two families are thrown into upheaval when it's discovered there was a mistake at the hospital where their respective sons were born. Ryota (Masaharu Fukuyama) has to decide what's more important to him, the relationship he's developed with the six-year-old child he thought was his biological son or his "real" son. Hirokazu Kore-eda explores what it means to be a family and a father in this intimate drama.

Why We're In: Kore-eda's a critically acclaimed filmmaker and beloved arthouse auteur whose work deserves to be seen on a wider scale. Don't let the subtitles scare you -- check it out!

Moviefone's Top Blu-ray of the Week

"Cry-Baby"

What's It About? Johnny Depp plays a swoon-worthy bad boy who falls for Allison (Amy Locane), a sweet girl who's feeling a little feisty. This doesn't sit well with Allison's...

Opera is waking up to the power of video. For his new production of Don Giovanni, the Royal Opera House's Kasper Holten collaborated with a designer who turned U2 tours and the 2012 Olympics into visual spectaculars. Stuart Jeffries goes behind the screens

"Don Giovanni is called the director's graveyard," says Kasper Holten. "It's impossible to do a perfect production. The existential moral journey of the seducer to hell is hard enough to make convincing – without having to juggle all the farcical elements, too."

So why is Holten, the Royal Opera House's director of opera, returning to Mozart's work for the third time (he has already directed it on stage and on film)? And why is he ratcheting up the risk with some of the tricksiest, most perilous video design ever seen on the British opera stage?

"It makes sense marrying video technology and Mozart," he explains. "If he were alive,...

The actor Stana Katic, best known as Castle's detective Kate Beckett, on the weird world of La artist Alex Gross, the rebel's voice of King Krule and the joys of living in a Mongolia yurt

Born in Canada, Stana Katic's early career on television saw her appear in sci-fi drama Heroes and play information broker Collette Stenger in season five of 24. She landed the role of was in the 2007 film Feast of Love before playing Corinne Veneau in the 2008 Bond film, Quantum of Solace. A year later, she landed the role for which she has become best known: playing NYPD detective Kate Beckett in the ABC crime drama, Castle. Katic has also launched her own production company, Sine Timore Productions, and founded The Alternative Travel Project, which encourages people to go car-free for a day. Having starred in his 2011 film, For Lovers Only, Katic reunited with director Michael Polish...

He’s never been afraid of a challenging role, and Daniel Radcliffe had to put aside his pride while filming the latest episode of “A Young Doctor’s Notebook” in London, England.

The “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” hunk got all done up as an old-fashioned clown for one of his character’s more bizarre moments.

Also starring Jon Hamm, “A Young Doctor’s Notebook” is based on a collection of short stores titled “A Country Doctor’s Notebook” by Mikhail Bulgakov.

Per the synopsis, “The series follows a recently-graduated young medic who is forced to say farewell to life in bustling Moscow to take up a post as a doctor in a small, remote hospital a thousand miles from the capital, and half a day's journey from the nearest shop.”...

Jon Hamm has put away the sharp suits to play a Russian medic in A Young Doctor's Notebook with Daniel Radcliffe. Here he talks about moving on from Mad Men and his alter ego Don, whose inner life draws so much on Hamm's own past …

'I think we should all," Jon Hamm suggests, "get a chance to spend a week or two back in the shoes of our 24-year-old self…" Hamm, straight-jawed star of Mad Men, is talking in his rich bass voice about the premise of A Young Doctor's Notebook, an inspired adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's autobiographical tales of his apprenticeship as a doctor in rural Russia in 1916. In the drama, now entering its second series on Sky Arts, Hamm plays the middle-aged writer, looking back on the bleakly comic, steppe-back-in-time world of his youth, through the person of Daniel Radcliffe. The pair – the morphine-addicted 42-year-old dissident, and...

★★★☆☆ Our four-legged companion the dog is commonly seen as "Man's best friend". Yet in Turkey, canines are elevated far higher, seen as loyal protectors, valued confidants and more recently as public contemporaries. Andrea Luka Zimmerman's Taşkafa, Stories of the Street (2013), a loose documentary about the street dogs of Istanbul, furthers her own work as a cultural activist, presenting us with the erosion of Turkey's communities through a dog's-eye-view. The film takes its name from one of the most revered street dogs of Istanbul, a celebrity amongst the locals and the guardian of this congenial community.

Zimmerman walks us through the streets of Istanbul, introducing us to the dogs who have made the back-alleys and plazas of the city their home. From vagrants to office workers, each interviewee gives us their own individual account of the roving animals. Each anecdote bequeaths us with a heartwarming tale, with the reverential tone...

Now that we’re well into back-to-school season, it feels like a good time to brush up on the great works of literature the proper way: by watching TV.

And since there are surprisingly few adaptations of the classics this fall — Chuck Lorre isn’t gonna adapt Beowulf for the small screen anytime soon — it’s also a good time to rediscover the arts and culture network Ovation, which premieres its surprisingly funny and gory black comedy A Young Doctor’s Notebook tonight at 10 p.m. Et. (The first season is only four episodes long, and you can find the...

This ain't no "Mad Men," but Jon Hamm says perhaps "Downton Abbey" fans will appreciate the "very British," yet "strange and bizarre" world of "A Young Doctor's Notebook."

Hamm stars opposite Daniel Radcliffe in the black comedy series debuting Wednesday night (Oct. 2) on Ovation. Fans of wizardry and 1960s advertising may remember that epic moment when Harry Potter and Don Draper took a bath together in the trailer for the first season of "A Young Doctor's Notebook" before it premiered in the UK. 

"The show is basically kind of a memory play of my character remembering his younger self [as Radcliffe's character]," Hamm tells Zap2it. "However, my character has a fairly serious ... morphine addiction, so the memory is not always correct. I'm kind of interceding into Dan's life -- my younger self's life -- quite a bit, including one time when he's taking a bath, I appear. It was fun. It was funny,...

After it broke ratings records last December on U.K.’s Sky Arts, American audiences can watch “A Young Doctor’s Notebook,” the dark comedy produced by and starring “Mad Men’s” Jon Hamm and co-starring “Harry Potter” actor Daniel Radcliffe, when it debuts Wednesday at 10/9c on Ovation. “I hadn’t seen anything like this,” Hamm told TheWrap and other reporters during an intimate Q&A in Los Angeles. The series is adapted from the book, “A Country Doctor’s Notebook,” a collection of short stories by Soviet writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov about his experiences as a newly...

In a fan fiction-worthy feat of casting (Don Draper and Harry Potter!), Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe play older and younger versions of a Russian doctor in the four-part British miniseries "A Young Doctor's Notebook," which aired in the U.K. on Sky Arts in December and was the most successful program in the history of the network. Arts channel Ovation will air the period drama, which is based on a collection of stories by Mikhail Bulgakov adapted by Mark Chappell, Shaun Pye and Alan Connor, in the U.S., and today announced a date for the premiere. The first part of the miniseries will debut on Thursday, October 3 at 8pm Et, with subsequent installments airing weekly. "I'm thrilled that Ovation has picked up the rights to broadcast 'A Young Doctor's Notebook' stateside," said Hamm in the announcement. "Like our UK benefactor Sky Arts, they have proven to...

C'mon, surely. The picture above was one that passed across our retinas around about a year ago, and for many it came blissfully free of context. For those of us in the U.K., however, it was actually followed by a TV miniseries, “A Young Doctor's Notebook,” about the experiences of a country doctor in revolutionary Russia. Jon Hamm played the older version of Daniel Radcliffe's young doctor, looking back on the experiences of his callow self.The show was a hit on its original U.K. channel, Sky Arts, and has been picked up in the U.S, by Ovation, which will air it in a couple of months (though they've yet to give a precise date). It has now also, per Deadline, been picked up for a second series, which will see the snow-bound doctor's tale (adapted from stories by Mikhail Bulgakov, of “The Master and Margarita...

Doctor Who

The first trailer for the upcoming 50th Anniversary Special aired during this year's San Diego Comic Con and sadly has yet to go online - unlike practically every other TV panel 'sneak peek' clip which screened at Comic Con this year.

For those of us who couldn't make it, The BBC has released three Dalek-related photos from the clip in an attempt to quell UK and overseas fandom which seems to be growing more irate by the hour.

The clip itself is said to have shown a lot of scenes of Smith and Tennant's Doctors running about, and (finally) a look at the events of the Time War. Moffat added that he's currently on page 20 of writing this year's Christmas special that will see the character's regeneration.

Atlantis

BBC America has come onboard to co-produce the BBC's 13-episode fantasy series "Atlantis". The story is set in a time...

Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe are reuniting for more "A Young Doctor's Notebook."

The new season of "A Young Doctor's Notebook," based on short stories by Mikhail Bulgakov, is set in the village of Muryevo in 1918 and picks up with the young doctor played by Radcliffe battling a morphine addiction, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

"I am also greatly looking forward to working with our new director, Robert McKillop, and cannot wait to commence filming this summer," Radcliffe said in a statement.

In the first season, Hamm and Radcliffe shared a bath for a scene.

Season 2 will air on Sky Arts 1 HD and On Demand in 2013.

"A Young Doctor's Notebook," a British series that stars Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe, is getting a second season.

The four-part series debuted to good reviews last December on the Sky Arts channel in the U.K., as well as the largest audience in the channel's history. Radcliffe stars as a young, morphine-addicted doctor working in a remote part of Russia in 1917; Hamm plays an older, sober version of the same character looking back on his past.

The series is based on stories by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov; Mark Chappell and Shaun Pye ("The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret") and Alan Connor adapted it.

The first season is scheduled to air on cable channel Ovation in December; Season 2 will debut in the U.K. later this year. ...

Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe partnered up last year for A Young Doctor’s Notebook, which became the most successful programme in Sky Arts history.

It’s understandable, then, that the channel would want to bring the duo back for a second season, and now news arrives that Hamm and Radcliffe have officially signed on for a second series.

The original four-part mini-series was based on a collection of short stories by Mikhail Bulgakov, airing in December last year as part of Sky Arts’ Playhouse Presents series.

There’s no word yet on the exact length of the second series, but it wouldn’t be amiss to suspect that it will be at least another four episodes long, given the success of the first season.

The comedy-drama’s second series will return to the small village of Muryevo in 1918 to find the Young Doctor battling against an all-consuming morphine addiction.

A Young Doctor's Notebook & Other Stories, the British dramedy about a young doctor during the Russian Revolution is getting a second season. Adapted from Mikhail Bulgakov’s short stories, the series casts Jon Hamm as a reputable doctor and Daniel Radcliffe as his more bumbling, younger self. This season focuses on the young doctor struggling with a morphine addiction while being watched and criticized by his sober, older self. No word yet on when the young doctor will take human growth hormone and turn into a hunk.

A Young Doctor's Notebook will return to Sky Arts for a second series under the name A Young Doctor's Notebook & Other Stories.

Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm will both reprise their roles when the show - based on the works of playwright Mikhail Bulgakov - returns as part of the channel's Playhouse Presents strand.

Radcliffe plays the younger self of Hamm's Russian doctor in the series, which picks up in the small village of Muryevo in 1918 with the character battling a morphine addiction.

Adam Godley will reprise his role as The Feldsher, with newcomer Margaret Clunie set to star as beautiful young aristocrat Natasha.

Hamm said of his return: "I'm thrilled to come back to our wonderful, weird, wild world of A Young Doctor's Notebook. Series one was an absolute blast to work on and I'm looking forward to continuing this bizarre adventure."

Radcliffe commented that he had "absolutely no...

The doctors are in, again. Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe have signed on for a second series of A Young Doctor’s Notebook & Other Stories. The Big Talk Productions mini will return later this year on Sky Arts in the UK. The first four-part series originally aired in December 2012 and was the most successful program in Sky Arts history. Ovation will air series one this fall in the U.S. The adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s short stories sees Hamm as a Russian doctor during the Russian Revolution, and Radcliffe as his younger self. The comedy-drama’s second series will return to the small village of Muryevo in 1918 to find the Young Doctor battling against an all-consuming morphine addiction. Under the critical gaze of his “clean” older self, the Young Doctor struggles to cope with life in the hospital, the Civil War, and the arrival of a beautiful young aristocrat...

At the end of the Harry Potter films, we got to see Daniel Radcliffe happily grown up with a family of his own. In the new mini-series, A Young Doctor's Notebook, Radcliffe faces his less congenial grown-up self head on in the form of Jon Hamm. "I am the envy of every woman ever," Radcliffe, 23, told the Sun of playing a med school grad who's sent to run a hospital in an isolated Russian village in 1917 opposite the 42-year-old Mad Men star. Only the relationship between the younger and older doctor isn't exactly friendly, and at one point the pair...

Film-maker known for his dark take on post-Soviet Russia

Aleksei Balabanov, who has died aged 54 after suffering a seizure, saw himself as the "anti-establishment rock'n'roller of Russian film" with an aim to make "scandalous, harsh cinema". Many of Balabanov's films are metaphorical black comedies that gaze unflinchingly at the bleakness and violence of the last days of communism and post-Soviet society, with classic Russian rock music on the soundtrack. His first two features, Happy Days (1991) and The Castle (1994), were based on Samuel Beckett and Franz Kafka respectively, and Balabanov's nihilistic oeuvre also takes in Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Mikhail Bulgakov, whose Notes of a Young Doctor was the basis of Balabanov's Morphia (2008).

"I don't make movies with ideas. Ideas make for bad cinema," he said. "I don't make my movies for the intelligentsia, but for the people. That's why they like my films." This was demonstrated by the commercial...

The on-screen collaboration of Harry Potter and Don Draper is making its way to the United States.

Cable channel Ovation will air "A Young Doctor's Notebook," a miniseries starring Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm that aired in the U.K. (to largely good reviews) in December. The show got some attention here for a teaser showing the two stars -- who play the same character at different points in his life -- in a bathtub together, but until now it had no U.S. home.

"A Young Doctor's Notebook" is based on a series of stories by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. Radcliffe plays a fresh-out-of-med-school doctor who's assigned to a remote village at the dawn of the Russian revolution in 1917; Hamm plays the same character years later, a morphine addict who reflects on his experiences.

The miniseries is part of a big push into original programming for the arts-focused Ovation.

Photo credit: Colin Hutton

Ovation, America’s only arts network, has further grown its slate of arts-centric programming by completing a deal with BBC Worldwide for the highly sought after UK hit from Big Talk Productions, A Young Doctor ‘s Notebook, starring Jon Hamm (TV’s Mad Men, The Town) and Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter, The Woman In Black).

“As a cause-based media company dedicated to the arts, Ovation is the perfect home for such a rich visual adaptation of this classic literary work,” said Robert Weiss , Ovation’s Chief Creative Officer. “It’s an honor to deliver work from artists as passionate about this project as Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe .”

Originally broadcast on Sky Arts in the UK last year, A Young Doctor ‘s Notebook became the highest-rated program in the network’s history, with audiences up over 1000% on the slot average and receiving universal critical acclaim.

“I...

Arts channel Ovation has acquired the American rights to the U.K. hit, "A Young Doctor's Notebook," which stars Jon Hamm and and Daniel Radcliffe, the company said on Thursday. Based on Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov's book of the same name, the four-part miniseries is a darkly humorous account of the turbulent experiences of a newly graduated young doctor (Radcliffe), told through the eyes of his older, opiate-addicted self (Hamm), who narrates the action from his own notebooks. See video: Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm Share a Bath, and a Loofah, in 'Young Doctor's...

John Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe to appear in second series of Sky Arts drama based on the Russian novel by Mikhail Bulgakov

Mad Men's Jon Hamm and Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe are to return in a second series of Sky's black comedy A Young Doctor's Notebook.

James Hunt, director of Sky Arts, introducing a second series of Playhouse Presents on Monday evening, said A Young Doctor's Notebook was "the most successful series we have ever done", attracting 800,000 viewers.

The show, based on Mikhail Bulgakov's 1917 novel of life in a remote Russian village, is part of the channel's commitment to original comedy, classical revivals and single dramas.

Sky has not formally announced the decision to give the all-clear for a second series – though Hunt said it will be going ahead – because the two stars have yet to find time in their hectic careers.

The first series was filmed...

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The Fear ran across four consecutive nights for a total of four hours. The question is whether that was two hours or three hours too long. Those who argue that it was four hours too long have a strong case, but that would be unfair to Peter Mullan, who gave a powerful performance in difficult circumstances.

He played Richie Beckett, a Brighton crime boss with fast-moving dementia. He went from administrative incompetence to hopeless incontinence in about as much time as it would have taken him to pull his trousers down.

Four-part comedy drama, starring John Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe, attracts an average audience of 252,000

Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe's pairing in A Young Doctor's Notebook proved an unsurprisingly popular combo for Sky Arts, giving the channel the best viewing figures in its seven-year history on Thursday night.

The four-part comedy drama, adapted from Mikhail Bulgakov's autobiographical short stories and featuring the Mad Men and Harry Potter actors playing the same doctor at different stages of his life, attracted an average audience of 252,000.

Viewing of the first outing of the series, which is made by Big Talk and aired at 9pm as part of Sky Arts's Playhouse Presents, had a five-minute peak of 307,000.

This is the biggest audience the channel has attracted since BSkyB acquired Artsworld in 2005 – the service was rebranded Sky Arts two years later – according to a spokeswoman.

The previous biggest audience for the channel is understood...

So we know Daniel Radcliffe is the most successful child actor of his generation, and that he's already proved his horror chops in the UK's most successful-ever big screen chiller, scampering around on demand in crowd-pleasing 'The Woman in Black'.

Now he's moved to the small screen for Sky Arts' Playhouse Presents strand, in 'The Young Doctor's Notebook', a four-part drama adapted from a short story by Radcliffe's own favourite author, Mikhail Bulgakov (also the author of his favourite book The Master and Margarita).

Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe share a role in this comedy drama

This gave Radcliffe the chance to stretch his comedic narrative muscles, as a young surgeon forced to learn his trade in the pre-Revolution Russian wilderness, looked over beatifically by an older version of his earnest young self, a relaxed - and comically taller - Jon Hamm.

This meant sharing screen time with...

Mikhail Bulgakov's chaotic account of his early career in medicine has been adapted for TV, with Daniel Radcliffe and John Hamm as the leads. Writer Alan Connor on the precision surgery involved

Like Chekhov, Mikhail Bulgakov was a doctor before he was a writer. He started writing at 29, and before then got to know plenty about the absurdity and intensity of medical practice. He had met a lot of people, and sawn off some of their legs.

After graduating from medical school in 1917, Bulgakov was sent to run a hospital in the remote Smolensk province, where his patients lived a brutal, essentially medieval existence. He turned these experiences into a series of short stories, collected in A Young Doctor's Notebook, a fictional account of a nameless doctor whose experience largely overlaps with its author's. His young doctor discovers that childbirth and tracheotomies go much faster, and get a lot messier,...

The channels' director is proud about offering audiences something he believes they can't get anywhere else

James Hunt is thinking about Jon Hamm. In the bath. With Daniel Radcliffe. The Sky Arts channel director's interest is entirely professional, looking ahead to his adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's A Young Doctor's Notebook, in which the two men will star.

"For Sky Arts to attract Don Draper and Harry Potter in the same production, in the same bath even, it's a dream come true," says Hunt. "It shows not only the ambition of the channel, but the ambition Sky has in trying to attract the world's top talent."

Radcliffe and Hamm play the same doctor at different stages of his life in the four-part series, which begins on 6 December. The drama has been described by the Mad Men star as mixing "madness and the macabre", and it stands every chance of delivering Sky Arts' biggest-ever audience.

Trailer for 'A Young Doctor's Notebook' starring Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe, part of Sky Arts' Playhouse Presents drama series.

'A Young Doctor’s' Notebook is a four-part comedy drama based on a collection of short stories by the celebrated Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov. The drama recounts Bulgakov’s semi-autobiographical experiences as a young doctor working in the small village of Muryovo at the dawn of the Russian Revolution in 1917.

Recounting from his notebooks, the Doctor considers his life and career as he tries to treat the patients of a village that is struggling to enter the modern age. Dealing not only with the superstitious and poorly educated patients but with his own inner demons, the doctor reveals doubts about his own competence and struggles with the immense burden of medical responsibility.

Jon Hamm takes on the role of the older doctor, who has a series...

Finally, the white-hot eroticism of Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe has been brought together on the screen. "Mad Men" star Hamm and "Harry Potter" star Radcliffe share a role -- and much more -- in the upcoming four-part miniseries "A Young Doctor's Notebook," which is based on a series of short stories by Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov. Hamm and Radcliffe will play, respectively, older and younger versions of Dr. Vladimir Bomgard. But a character isn't the only thing the two split -- judging from a new trailer for the project,...

No, Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe sharing a bathtub is not the start of some "Mad Men"/"Harry Potter" crossover fan fiction. The image and the teaser below are from the upcoming British miniseries "A Young Doctor's Notebook," a four-parter based on a short story collection by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov set to premiere in the U.K. on Sky Arts on December 6th. Radcliffe plays a young doctor working in a village around the start of the Russian Revolution, while Hamm plays the man's older self, with the two sometimes interacting. There's no U.S. TV premiere set up yet, but given the talent involved, it seems likely that someone will license it to air here soon. Bulgakov's autobiographical writings on addiction and being a doctor also served as the basis of Aleksei Balabanov's excellent 2008 film "Morphine."...

If this teaser for "A Young Doctor's Notebook," the British miniseries starring Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe, has not already been Gif'd within an inch of its life, then we may have to turn in our Internet cards.

Because: Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe, in a bathtub together, with Radcliff saying "Pass me the loofah."

The miniseries, based on a short-story collection by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov, stars Radcliffe as a (very) young doctor working in a small village at the dawn of the Russian Revolution. Hamm plays the character as an older man, looking back on those times and occasionally interacting with his younger self. It premieres in December in the U.K.; there's no word on whether it will eventually air in the United States.

Take a look at the teaser and let us know what you think. Do Harry Potter and Don Draper make a convincing before-and-after picture?...

Check out the trailer for UK series "A Young Doctor's Notebook," Sky Arts 1 Channel's new miniseries starring Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe. The four-part show is based on the short stories of Russian playwright Mikhail Bulgakov: a doctor (Hamm) struggles through his life and work through exchanges with his younger self (Radcliffe). It debuts December 6 in the UK. ThePlaylist has more on Sky's slate of original programming.

After a titillating image surfaced of Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe sharing a bath, we now have the first official trailer for A Young Doctor's Notebook -- the unlikely British miniseries that brings Harry Potter and Mad Men's Don Draper together. Story: Daniel Radcliffe, Jon Hamm Share a Bath in New Still for British Miniseries   In the comedy, the two play younger and older versions of Dr. Vladimir Bomgard -- a Russian doctor looking back on his life. The project is based on the short story by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, based on his own experiences working as a small-town doctor at the dawn of

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Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe have teamed for the Sky Arts Playhouse Presents miniseries, a four-part comedy-drama based on a collection of semi-autobiographical short stories by Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov. Radcliffe plays a young doctor working in a small village in 1917, and Hamm plays his older version; the two meet is a series of exchanges throughout (Don Draper and Harry Potter sharing a bath!). A Young Doctor’s Notebook is exec produced by Big Talk Productions and Hamm’s Point West Pictures. It debuts in the UK on December 6, but there’s no U.S. date or broadcaster so far.

Over in the U.K., Sky’s television channels are beginning to challenge the traditional powerhouses (BBC, ITV and Channel 4) when it comes to commissioning original comedy and drama. They’ve moved a lot quicker in producing strong comedies by attracting the likes of Chris O’Dowd, Armando Iannucci and Steve Coogan (who provided the channel with brand new Alan Partridge content), Charlie Brooker and Ruth Jones over to their channels, and they’re slowly starting to do the same with original drama. Earlier in the year “Hit & Miss” debuted, starring Chloe Sevigny as a transsexual hit man, followed not long after by the ambitious “Sinbad.” The next drama to hit looks like an exciting one thanks to its high profile stars, Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe. “A Young Doctor’s Notebook” is a four-part miniseries based on a collection of short stories by Russian playwright Mikhail Bulgakov, and...

A Young Doctor's Notebook, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm, has received its first trailer. The four-part Sky Arts series is an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's short stories that stars Mad Men actor Hamm as an older doctor, while Harry Potter and The Woman in Black star Radcliffe plays his younger self. The one-minute trailer also shows Radcliffe and Hamm attending to patients as well as sharing a bath tub together. "It was great, because you know you are the envy of every woman ever," Radcliffe said of the bath tub scene. Radcliffe (more)...