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19.12.03


TV DRAMA


Bleak House gets the soap opera treatment for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ ONE


Writer Andrew Davies, who delighted audiences with his adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, is turning Charles Dickens' Bleak House into a new series of soap opera-style episodes for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ ONE.


Dickens' original readers enjoyed the novels in short instalments which ended in cliff-hangers to persuade them to buy the next chapter.


Laura Mackie, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Head of Drama Serials, says: "It's a new way of doing the classic adaptation, reinvigorating our approach to the serial form, matching it to the serial structure and narrative development of the original - and the way that it was originally published.


"The Dickens novel was very much the soap opera of its day, and we hope to emulate those same cliff-hanger emotions in televisual terms."


Andrew Davies says: "Dickens seemed particularly suitable because there are so many characters, there's such a lot of life, such a number of criss-crossing plots, that it would be interesting to do it in a new way, with shorter episodes and having a lot of characters in the background of each other's stories."


Producer Nigel Stafford-Clark worked with Andrew Davies to develop the concept of adapting Bleak House in a completely new form.


The pair has also worked together on the BAFTA award-winning adaptation of Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now and has recently completed Trollope's He Knew He Was Right, due for transmission in 2004.


All the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's digital services are now available on , the new free-to-view digital terrestrial television service, as well as on satellite and cable.

Freeview offers the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's eight television channels, interactive services from Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔi, as well as 11 national Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ radio networks.


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