"Gripping. It's not Jane Austen, it's not Henry James but it's gripping." -- William, 'Nottting Hill'

TV Cazz Blase makes a plea regarding television literary adaptations: "Don’t get me wrong - I like costume dramas. I just wish writers, producers and schedulers would be a little more imaginative in their choice of books to adapt. For starters, why the fascination with the Brontës, Dickens, Hardy and Austen? Even George Elliot and Elizabeth Gaskell only got a look in a few years ago, similarly Trollope and Thackeray."

1 comment:

MaureenE said...

Elizabeth Gaskell's had two adaptations with another on the way and the two already made are quite well-known, but I take the point.