Fortunate British TV viewers will have lots of Dickens to watch this week. Spoof series Bleak Old Shop of Stuff starts tonight. And tomorrow night Great Expectations begins (here's a new interview with Gillian Anderson about that, by the way). We'd be happy to hear our British readers' thoughts on both programs!
Meanwhile, on this side of the pond, we have the final TCM Dickens night of the month. Tonight's offering is the six-hour Little Dorrit from 1988, which I once referred to as "Dickens on acid." If you're in the mood to have your mind boggled, tune in at 8 p.m. EST.
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Hi Gina, I can't wait for 'Great Expectations', starting tomorrow night and 'Edwin Drood' in the New Year - 'Drood' is probably my favourite so I'm excited at it finally getting a major TV adaptation.
I wondered if you had come across this new website 'Charles Dickens on Screen', run by author Fred Guida, who wrote the book 'A Christmas Carol and Its Adaptations: Dickens’s Story on Screen and Television'.
http://charlesdickensonscreen.com/
Posted by: Judy | December 26, 2011 at 05:05 PM
PS, the Guardian newspaper in the UK has just run an article by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst headlined "Dickens on screen: the highs and the lows", as part of their series of articles on "Dickens at 200". Very interesting!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/23/dickens-on-screen-highs-lows
Posted by: Judy | December 26, 2011 at 05:28 PM
Thank you, Judy! I'll try to post about both of those very soon. Hope you enjoy the miniseries!
Posted by: Gina | December 26, 2011 at 06:54 PM
Gina, wondered if you've seen "Bleak Old Shop of Stuff" yet? Just came across it on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFb491cVYa8
Posted by: Charleybrown | January 15, 2012 at 08:28 AM
No, I hadn't yet. Thank you!
Posted by: Gina | January 21, 2012 at 02:55 PM