When I sat down to watch Wolf Hall, I was unsure about what to expect; mainly because I don’t know a lot about the Tudor period, and I wasn’t sure about whether a Tudor period show would be up my street. It’s safe to say that I was pleasantly surprised with BBC Two’s...
BBC Two have announced the cast of their epic medieval drama Wolf Hall. Fresh from his turn in Homeland, Damian Lewis will play King Henry VIII opposite Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell. The drama, which is adapted from novels of Hilary Mantel, will chart the...
It was an uneven series, but the finicky butler kept me glued to the screen, says Laura Pledger Tonight we bade farewell to the residents of 165 Eaton Place as the second, decidedly patchy, series of Upstairs Downstairs came to an end. Two strong closing...
Did we like it? The cast, script and dialogue segue together like a star scooping up interstellar dust to form a life-giving, glaring sun. But the locations, so crucial in this Dickens novel, appeared a little sanitised and don’t reflect the scything satire of the...