or whatever the hell you call it in places that aren't the UK.

Who likes it? I'm currently watching the new BBC adaptation of Little Dorrit, which is so far excellent and well makes up for the overrated disappointment that was Cranford earlier this year.

I have to admit, I haven't read half the books that these are adapted from; I find Dickens' narration too heavy-going and it puts me off, but his characters are excellent and this is where costume drama is a useful medium.

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this will be my job one day, set decorator?

but anyway, i fully bummed LARKRISE TO CANDLEFORD?
hahahahah me and shuvvy used to watched it alot?

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I bummed Larkrise To Candleford too? (my little Scarlet homage there) It was much much better than Cranford.

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I did like ... Middlemarch I think it was.

I have some others on dvd

so, yeah I likes 'em.

i remember BBC (was it BBC?) did Oliver years ago, i enjoyed that
Moll Flanders? lotsa sex in that...

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2B or not 2B?

I saw a ridiculous, almost shot-for-shot, remake of A Room With A View. I didn't get the point of it. The naked-running-around-the-swimming-hole scene was really similar. Basically, they just subbed in some new harridan for HBC, and thus it didn't even work. Where was Judi? Where was Maggie? WRONG.

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What you're saying is that any good costume drama needs a Dame?
There isn't one in Dorrit, but it DOES have Sue Johnston, which is good.

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No, I think it just needs a point. And the shitty remake - clearly a remake of the film, rather than an adaptation of the book - didn't have one.

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Much like the 2005 attempt of Pride & Prejudice?

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not a serialized tv program but i was just watching the wings of the dove with helena bonham carter and thought that movie was noteworthy. i don't care if it was only loosely based on the novel or didn't follow it that much, it was still well acted, sexy (for a costume drama or otherwise) and had great costumes.

Yes, pretty much. Yes, it was on the wid0r screen. But there wasn't much else recommending it to anyone. This particular ARWAV didn't even exploit some sort of advantage such as "much more time available to explore the plot". Silly.

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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.

I escaped somehow. Let's go

actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter