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 …
This isn’t the first time I’ve watched Becoming Jane and I’m probably likely to watch it again several times in the future. It’s a typical Austenesque period drama: a tangled love story, a bit of social satire, some humour and wit, beautiful cinematography. The casting was good: Anne Hathaway and …
The Slap is an eight-part drama series based on the novel of the same name by Christos Tsiolkas. BBC have recently acquired the Australian adaptation and I’ve been enjoying it despite the fact that I didn’t get on too well with the book. The episodes follow the repercussions of a …
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 …
Miss Potter is based on the story of the world’s best-selling children’s author, Beatrix Potter. At thirty-two Beatrix is still unmarried and refuses her mother’s pleas for her to accept any one of many suitors; for Beatrix, marriage is not something a woman must accept just because society expects her …
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre has seen a plethora of adaptations over the years. The latest release, starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender, is actually the 9th film/TV adaptation so far – which doesn’t include the two silent movies made in 1910 and 1914. I was really surprised to find that …
This is hardly going to be a credible review of ITV’s 2007 adaptation of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, because not only have I never seen an adaptation of it before… I’ve also never read the novel itself. Hmmm. Northanger Abbey never gets as much attention as the rest of Austen’s …
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 …
This adaptation of Emily’s Brontë’s classic novel, Wuthering Heights, directed by Coky Giedroyc, was aired on ITV at the end of August this year – I only watched it the other day after a friend informed me; I’m not quite sure how I managed to miss it earlier in the …
