ShakespeaRe-Told is the umbrella title for a series of four television adaptations ofWilliam Shakespeare's plays broadcast onBBC One during November 2005. In a similar manner to the 2003 production ofThe Canterbury Tales, each play is adapted by a different writer, and relocated to the present day. The plays were produced in collaboration byBBC Northern Ireland and the centralBBC drama department. In August 2006 the four films aired on BBC America.

• Adapted byDavid Nicholls
• Directed byBrian Percival
• Broadcast 7 November 2005
• Set in a local news studio, withBeatrice (Sarah Parish) and Benedick (Damian Lewis) as feuding anchors.Hero (Billie Piper), the weathergirl and daughter of station manager Leonard (Martin Jarvis), becomes engaged to Claude (Tom Ellis), the sports presenter. Jealous visual effects manager Don^[1] (Derek Riddell), plots to break up Hero and Claude, whilst the others attempt to get Beatrice and Benedick together. Hero and Claude eventually repair their friendship, though Hero refuses to consider marriage again, the ending is left ambiguous about their future as they are the best man andmaid of honour (respectively) for the finale: the wedding of Beatrice and Benedick.^[2]

• Adapted byPeter Moffat
• Directed byMark Brozel
• Broadcast 14 November 2005
• Set in athree Michelin star restaurant owned by celebrity chefDuncan Docherty (Vincent Regan), with JoeMacbeth (James McAvoy) as thesous chef andhis wife Ella (Keeley Hawes) as theMaître d'. Joe and his fellow chef BillyBanquo (Joseph Millson) are annoyed that Duncan takes the credit for Joe's work, and that Duncan's sonMalcolm (Toby Kebbell) has, in their opinion, no real flair for the business. Then they encounter three supernaturalbinmen who predict that Macbeth will get ownership of the restaurant, as will Billy's children. Joe and Ella are inspired to kill Duncan, but the binmen subsequently warn that Macbeth should be wary of PeterMacduff (Richard Armitage), the head waiter.

• Adapted bySally Wainwright
• Directed byDavid Richards
• Broadcast 21 November 2005
• Katherine Minola (Shirley Henderson) is a politician who hopes to become theLeader of the Opposition. She is told that her abrasive personality is badPR and that it might be good for her image to get married. When penniless noblemanPetruchio (Rufus Sewell) shows up, interested at first in Katherine's money, sparks fly as Katherine seems to have met her match. The relationship and battle of wills bring big surprises for both parties. Katherine's sister Bianca (Jaime Murray) is a supermodel whose manager is Petruchio's friend, Harry (Stephen Tompkinson).Twiggy has the role of Katherine and Bianca's mother.David Mitchell played Kate's hapless secretary Tim.

• Adapted byPeter Bowker
• Directed byEd Fraiman
• Broadcast 28 November 2005
• Theo (Bill Paterson) andPolly (Imelda Staunton) visit Dream Park inclusive leisure facility to celebrate the engagement of their daughter^[3]Hermia (Zoe Tapper) toJames (William Ash). The engagement party is, much to the irritable Theo's horror, disrupted by Hermia's true loveXander (Rupert Evans). Despite their own disagreements, thefairy rulers of the woods around Dream Park,Titania (Sharon Small) andOberon (Lennie James), have a duty to ensure a happy ending, so Oberon getsPuck (Dean Lennox Kelly) — portrayed as a sort of magicalwide boy — to try to sort things out with "love juice" eyedrops, while Oberon and Theo discuss their marriages. Puck's efforts inevitably lead to more confusion. ComedianJohnny Vegas appears asNick Bottom who, like the otherMechanicals, is a Dream Park security guard who hopes to make it onto the entertainment staff.

On 26 December 2005, a Region 2 DVD of the episodes was released byAcorn Media UK. A Region 1 release followed on 24 July 2007 from BBC Warner.

• The BBC's officialShakespeaRe-Told site
• ShakespeaRe-ToldMuch Ado About Nothing atIMDb
• ShakespeaRe-ToldMacbeth atIMDb
• ShakespeaRe-ToldThe Taming of the Shrew atIMDb
• ShakespeaRe-ToldA Midsummer Night's Dream atIMDb

• 2005 British television series debuts
• 2005 British television series endings
• Television shows based on works by William Shakespeare
• Modern adaptations of works by William Shakespeare
• Works based on Much Ado About Nothing
• Works based on The Taming of the Shrew
• Works based on Macbeth
• Works based on A Midsummer Night's Dream

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