Comments for Costume drama reviews

Comment on BBC announces new dramas by Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 15 May 2013 23:59:07 +0000

Actually they are making a BBC adaptation of Mary Barton! Like all of you I have been waiting for forever for them to make one because it is such a beautiful story and I want to see Jem Wilson and Mary’s love come to life on screen. http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/dec/01/bbc-gritty-look-working-class there is the link to the article about it

Comment on North and South (2004) by Beiah

Beiah — Fri, 10 May 2013 01:04:36 +0000

I’ve recently been bitten by the costume drama bug. I’ve gone through Emma, Parade’s End and, North and South in a week. And my favorite among them is North and South. Never have I experienced watching something that made me cry from the first episode to the last. I was crying non-stop. I’ve never read the book and strangely enough, whenever I go to bookstores, I’ve never seen this particular book. And I’m the kind of girl of wanders around bookstores for hours and may have memorized where all of the books are located. I was intrigued by this story because of Richard Armitage and also because of his character. For me, this story more than just talks about the class division and stark difference of the country and the industrial side of England but it also talks of men and women’s prejudices towards the opposite sex. Where with Pride and Prejudice it was played romantically, here it was played socially. And that’s the reason why I love this show so much now. Because I always believe that men and women should not judge each other based on our biological nature or sexual disposition. I love both Margaret and John’s characters and it was played wonderfully by both actors.

Now, I am going to read the book :)

Comment on BBC announces new dramas by Nabil Shaban

Nabil Shaban — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:39:51 +0000

I’m currently enjoying reading “Mary Barton”, and I found your article because I was Googling as to whether there were any TV or movie adaptations of Elizabeth Gaskell’s classic story of poverty in Victorian Britain. The fact that while the BBC (and others) will produce endless remakes of Dickens (who is a notorious writer of “feel-good” endings”), Brontes etc, they are shy to produce a serial of how exploited and oppressed the British working class have been, which goes proves that the BBC is still a Middle Class institution that is mainly concerned with massaging the egos of the Middle and Upper Classes. However, I have read somewhere that last December the BBC announced they were in pre-production on a TV adaptation of “Mary Barton”. If this long-awaited drama materialises, I certainly will purchase the DVD.

Comment on ‘Robin Hood’ series cancelled by vicpet

vicpet — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:38:44 +0000

this is crazy i didn’t like the way it ended they need to continue
i really loved it

Comment on Jane Eyre (1997) by Gillian

Gillian — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:14:14 +0000

I have always loved Jane Eyre and read this in English at school. I really enjoyed watching both Ciaran Hinds and as Edward Rochester and Samantha Morton as Jane Eyre, I have recently decide to buy this film from amazon and love the on screen Chemistry between both the leading actors,

Ciaran hinds has won me over as a very good actor so I am a fan now of a lot of his work a lot of actors have played this role and bring there own special acting talent I like both Ciaran hinds and Toby Stephens as Rochester I don’t ever get fed up of watching them and there talents

Comment on Jane Eyre (1996) by Babs

Babs — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:35:55 +0000

Not my favorite. Too rushed and improbable meetings; it seems to just skip along the surface of the story. Also, Hurt’s Rochester is so abridged I fail to see why Jane should be so attracted.

Comment on BBC’s ‘lost’ 1961 Anna Karenina coming out on DVD by Judy

Judy — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:16:36 +0000

Hello Peter, sorry to be so slow in replying – I’m not updating this blog at the moment, but have now signed your petition and will publicise it on my other blog, Movie Classics (movieclassics.wordpress.com) where I am currently running a series of features about older Dickens films. I went along to a series of sessions about Dickens on TV at the BFI earlier this year where there was a panel discussion about the 1960s adaptations of his work and the chance to see clips – sadly,it was said that many of them have been partly lost, including a David Copperfield starring Ian McKellen which I would love to see, but anyway I would certainly like to see a DVD release of this version of ‘Oliver Twist’.

Comment on BBC’s ‘lost’ 1961 Anna Karenina coming out on DVD by peter watson

peter watson — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:35:02 +0000

Good to see that the BBC are finally opening up their archives from the 1960′s. I am currently trying to obtain support online via a petition to get the 1962 “Oliver Twist” serialisation released onto dvd. Any black and white adaptation released onto dvd is fine by me. The original of any serialisation is generally regarded as the standard from which all others are judged.
Peter Watson.
TV historian.

Comment on A Little Princess (1995) by Raffi Minassian

Raffi Minassian — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 03:38:20 +0000

My wife loves the film and absolutely loves Sara’s wardrobe, being a big fan of that period she was wondering if it was possible to get patterns of the dresses, coats and hats. It would be amazing to be able to surprise her with these patterns. If you can help in anyway in finding out how I can go about getting them it would be greatly appreciated.

Comment on ‘Robin Hood’ series cancelled by Eldinho

Eldinho — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:16:02 +0000

THis show is awesome. One of… if not the best show that I have ever watched!!! Well done to everyone that made it. WE ARE ROBIN HOOD!