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 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 [...]

Lenghty Dickens book adapted for TV
Toxic debt, failing financial institutions, lax regulation — ring any bells?
As fate would have it, all of the above underpin the BBC’s latest period drama blockbuster, a marathon adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “Little Dorrit,” which bowed on flagship web BBC1 on Sunday and is certain to strike contemporary resonances. [...]