This week the final 2 episodes air on Wednesday and Friday on BBC1 at 8.00 pm
And so we say farewell to Claire Foy’s hugely appealing Little Dorrit as Andrew Davies’s masterful adaptation reaches its climax.
There have been some wonderful characterisations throughout, with Tom Courtenay bravely unloveable as the self-indulgent, vain and brutally snobbish Mr Dorrit, [...]

The BBC has received 4,680 complaints from viewers angry that last night’s episode of costume drama Little Dorrit was replaced at the last minute with a Panorama special on the Shannon Matthews trial.
Today the corporation apologised to BBC1 viewers who were annoyed at the late move of the drama, as well as factual series The [...]

Thousands of viewers complained to the BBC after the corporation cancelled an episode of Little Dorrit to screen a documentary about the Shannon Matthews case.
The lavish adaptation of the Charles Dickens tale was replaced with a Panorama programme titled Shannon: The Mother of All Lies on Thursday night.
It followed the conviction of Shannon’s [...]

The English civil war gets an overdue celebration in The Devil’s Whore, a thrilling new TV drama from Peter Flannery
There are moments when The Devil’s Whore, coming soon on Channel 4, seems almost too rich and exotic to be a British drama. Hollywood’s accepted agenda for heroes — whether fighting aliens in Independence Day, Persians [...]

Peter Flannery’s new Civil War epic is a sex-fuelled, violent bloodfest that’s more Sergio Leone than Shakespeare, finds Gerard Gilbert
Roundheads and cavaliers… class warfare… regicide… families at one another’s throats… an explosion of radical ideas… You’d think that the English Civil War would be meat and drink to any half-sentient dramatist.
But think again, for while [...]

Channel 4’s new drama The Devil’s Whore is set during the English Civil War. Its stars and writer tell Serena Davies why the period is so ripe for dramatisation
Channel 4’s new four-part costume drama, The Devil’s Whore, is full of wild storms, furious winds and camera angles so eccentric they make it look like chaos [...]

Remember to tune in tonight for episode 9 at 8.00 pm on BBC ONE!!
It is depressing to discover that the audiences for I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here are going up while those for the fantastic adaptation of Little Dorrit are falling.
When the series opened a few weeks ago, it attracted more than [...]

Who is she? Fresh out of The Oxford School of Drama, the 24-year-old half-Irish actress will be a repeat visitor in bonnet-loving living rooms this autumn, when the BBC’s Little Dorrit rolls out. The cast includes Matthew Macfadyen, Andy Serkis, Mackenzie Crook and Ruth Jones.
Who does she play? The heroine, Amy Dorrit, dutiful daughter [...]

After sexing up Pride and Prejudice and turning Bleak House into a soap, Andrew Davies is now dragging Little Dorrit into the 21st century
It was not a fine English summer. It was a summer, in fact, where West Wycombe was mightily hard-pushed to double for Venice, which it nevertheless had to – for television budgets, [...]

From falling in love with his Spooks co-star, to collapsing in giggles on the set of his new film, Matthew Macfadyen is a man who goes with his instinct. On the eve of the BBC’s latest Dickens drama, he talks to Patrick Barkham.
Credit was already crunching when the cast pulled on their smocks and [...]