#bbc miniseries

[ifwewere-stories]

[ifwewere-stories]

[the-barefoot-hatter]

begging people to watch the Bleak Old Shop of Stuff. it's basically the The Duchess Approves IRL

Jedrington Secret-Past's unknown past comes back to haunt him in the form of the bitter lawyer Mr Malifax Skulkingworm (Stephen Fry). Skulkingworm finds a loophole in the law and has Jedrington's shop confiscated and family thrown into the debtor's prison. With just hours before Big Ben strikes twelve to herald in Christmas Day, Jedrington must race against the clock to save his family before it is too late. (treacle addiction, geese driving people to madness, the church of st weddings and more)

The Bleak Old Shop Of Stuff : Mark Evans : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Four part BBC TV comedy series parodying the works of Charles Dickens, which ran on BBC2 from December 2011 to March 2012. Writer Mark Evans

[ic-napology]

Another Pride and Prejudice thought

I definitely love the BBC miniseries of 1995 more than the 2005 movie as a whole. However, a few renditions are preferable in the latter for me, such Lady Catherine's portrait.

The choice itself of casting Dame Judy Dench speaks of an intention of treating the character with some respect even despite her classism, arrogance and invasive manners. Barbara Leigh-Hunt was an amazing actress and casting choice as well, mind you. But her portrayal of Lady Catherine leans obviously in a more negative vitriolic direction. This Lady commands more disdain than authority and results a very negative character you much less excuse for her behaviour.

The thing is, I feel the og character if Lady Catherine was meant to be seen as more complex than that, even is she's a clearly negative character, if not the final and main antagonist. She is arrogant, she is classist and she does act upon her entitlement by meddling with others' decisions under the excuse of being generous. But Jane Austen always designed her characters as very conditioned by their environment too, so the real source of problems here is society's standards who ultimately legitimate a Lady's classism and sense of superiority. I understand that the British Empire had one of the most strict and rigid societal orders in Europe, especially to contrast France's very dynamic situation at the time, and that's the true object of Austen's gentle satyre.

And by the way, especially because "they lived in a society", there are some reasonable and understandable motives behind Lady Catherine's acts, no matter how brash and entitled she behaves. After all she pushes for a marriage between Darcy and Anne not mainly to spite Elizabeth, but to honor a promise with her dead sister and to protect a very fragile daughter, who else it won't certain she would marry at all. She surely and rightfully trust her nephew to take care of Anne when she will be gone. I mean who wouldn't trust him🥰?

So that's why I appreciate more Judy Dench's Lady Catherine, because she's granted a minimum "respect" be the movie's gaze due to these more reasonable motives behind her actions, without taking out her negative traits.

[groovy-lady]

For any Jared Harris fans, have some pics of him as Captain Anderson in the BBC miniseries To The Ends of the Earth (2005)!!!

[dalyankiz1981]

Andrew Scott as Lord Merlin in The Pursuit Of Love

Enjoyed this immensely (which got very mixed reviews!) and not being familiar with Nancy Mitford’s novel, the original source material, I did not see THAT ending coming 😭😢

And, needless to say, Lord Merlin is just a wonder to behold! 😍

[hug-me-brutha]

I am so frustrated

I cannot find a single place on the internet that lists all the bbc miniseries

Not one

Not a Wikipedia list, not on the bbc wiki, not even some random persons blog

There are about a million "top 10 bbc miniseries" lists but they all list the same things over and over and I just want a lost that tells me the name of every one no matter if people liked it or not just so I have an idea of if there's one that looks interesting that I've missed

[emmaysusseries]

**** (I enjoyed it so much, bit all my nails off. Very bad baddies and very likable anti-heroes. With a bunch of bad-ass women, there must have been plenty, but unfortunately, they were not portrayed so much in the past. Filmed in Spain, like the old spaghetti westerns. Cool photography, great acting, and good production in general. Very, very sad though, kleenex in hand)