Correction - Bleak House doesn't start this week after all. There was a
feature in Radio Times, but it looks as though the actual first episode will
not be shown until later in the month.
Kate Bunting
Librarian and 17th century reenactor
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Kate Bunting
Librarian and 17th century reenactor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/10/2005 19:09 wrote
.I am looking forward to the new Bleak House. Do you know when it will
be coming out and especially, coming out on DVD?
It starts on UK TV next week. I suppose it will come out on DVD after the
There is about to be a new BBC version of Bleak House dramatised by Andrew
Davis of Pride and Prejudice fame, with Gillian Anderson in the Diana Rigg
role. The previous version was 1985 according to Radio Times.
The version of The Woman in White shown on TV a few years back took
considerable
Although the films of The Woman in White and The Moonstone are both
good, I think Wilkie Collins' novels are better in both cases. The
novels are mysteries; the suspense aspects, the unraveling of mysteries
bit by bit, the false leads, are not really carried off as well in the
films. The