You’ve got to give it to the BBC, they almost always do an awesome job when it comes to drama adaptations, especially of the classics. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is no exception. I’ve never actually read this famously unfinished novel by Charles Dickens, but as far as I’m aware, …
I’m grateful I’ve only read Great Expectations once and that my memory was not serving me well when it came to the storyline whilst watching this new adaptation. It meant that I could actually enjoy it and not rip it to pieces for ripping Dickens to pieces. Well, not rip …
As the title suggests, the drama is about an Indian doctor, Dr Prem Sharma, played by Sanjeev Bhaskar, who leaves Delhi with his wife for the UK as part of the influx of Indian doctors recruited for the NHS by the health minister, Enoch Powell. But instead of being sent …
As much as I love watching traditional English costume dramas on Sunday evenings, it’s such a breath of fresh air to see the BBC daring to do something more contemporary and stimulating. It was in September that I first heard that BBC were going to adapt Andrea Levy’s award-winning novel …
I accidentally came across this modern drama inspired by Wuthering Heights the other day. I don’t think any other adaptation of the novel has been as passionate or as gripping as this. I will shamefully admit that I cried bucketloads watching this drama starring Sarah Smart, Joe McFadden and Richard …
I love period dramas, especially literary adaptations: it doesn’t matter how many times a literary masterpiece is adapted into TV/film, I’m always intrigued to see the director’s take on it. Emma is BBC’s latest Jane Austen drama, a four-part mini-series scripted by Sandy Welch, starring Romola Garai as Emma, the …
