North East-born actor Kieran Bew has landed the swashbuckling title role in ITV’s ambitious Beowulf adaptation. Filming is due to start shortly on a massive set which has been taking shape in a ...

One wears the name of an old hero of the Geats, the other a moniker people most often associate with a Blue Oval off-roader. Both are tracked machines designed to tackle the harshest of terrains and ...

It's been a towering landmark in the world of English literature for more than two centuries, but Beowulf is still the subject of fierce academic debate, in part between those who claim the epic poem ...

Syfy has put in development Beowulf a drama series adaptation of the classic Old English epic poem that further examines the hero’s rise to power and his feud with the monster Grendel. The project, ...

The fantasy category is getting crowded on TV, which makes sense, given the phenomenal success of “Game of Thrones.” The Esquire Network has girded itself for battle with “Beowulf,” swords-and-sorcery ...

When Beowulf Racing takes to the track for the start of the European Superstock 600 Championship (ESS 600) next month, they won’t just be sporting a new rider in the form of 17-year-old Gino Rea – the ...

As the cold sting of winter finally starts to fade, so the literary festival season edges closer. An addition to the line-up this year is a five-day celebration of the legendary saga of Beowulf. How ...

In 1926, J.R.R. Tolkien, one of fiction’s finest crafters of fantasy worlds, translated the 11th-century epic “Beowulf.” Nearly 90 years later, his son Christopher Tolkien is releasing an edited ...

Penguin Computing, a server maker specializing in machines running Linux, has signed an agreement to acquire Scyld Computing, the company founded by a pioneer of "Beowulf" Linux supercomputers, the ...