Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin will star in new comedy Grace and Frankie, from the creator of Friends, and last year Netflix announced a deal with Marvel Comics.
Grace and Mary, Melvyn Bragg's latest novel is, noted Jane Shilling in the Evening Standard, "based on the stories of his grandmother, Isabelle (renamed Grace in the novel), and of his mother, Mary, to whom Isabelle, then unmarried, gave birth in 1917, and who was raised by a foster mother.
Here, every Saturday, Jane sells her own fruit, vegetables and, in autumn, meat, and the products of a few carefully chosen biodynamic growers.
No sooner had I got out of the car than Jane Scotter, who runs the farm with her partner Harry Astley, whisked me off to the bank of compost heaps.
The real Hawking was diagnosed before he started dating Jane.
The simple eloquence of that vulnerable foot in its scuffed shoe reminds me of the profound eloquence of the cow's eye, the photograph with which Jane discovered her calling all those years ago as a student just out of the Wrens, alone and unsure of where life would take her.
When I arrived at the Observer at the start of 1990, Jane had already been there for 41 years.
I have several prints by Jane, collected over the years.
And I've been trying to think of what "Jane Bown" means now she is gone.
I don't think anyone would argue that it's probably better for little Johnny or Jane if their parents would rather whittle wooden figurines with them than pop them in front of Frozen or Angry Birds on the iPad.
Jane was very reluctant to explain how she worked – her favourite mantra was "photographers should neither be seen nor heard".
