Best Book Adaptations for TV

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck_]

Such as the ones the BBC made. Serial dramas.

[genesis_pig]

Just saw BBC's latest modern day adaptation of Sherlock Holmes (3 Part Mini-Series)..
It was really impressive, far better than Guy Ritchie's attempt.

[Caitlyn]

Probably the best I've seen was BBC's 1995 Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle...

[christine]

Just saw BBC's latest modern day adaptation of Sherlock Holmes (3 Part Mini-Series)..
It was really impressive, far better than Guy Ritchie's attempt.

You can't really compare the two tho hey? ok they're based on Conan Doyles books but the writers are doing different takes. I liked 'em both :)
The BBC's one is truning out quite awesome, the second one was ace!

[mark f]

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[genesis_pig]

You can't really compare the two tho hey? ok they're based on Conan Doyles books but the writers are doing different takes. I liked 'em both :)
The BBC's one is truning out quite awesome, the second one was ace!

I too like both of them... But I hate Guy Ritchie & others claiming it as the most faithful adaptation, just coz Sherlock can be seen fighting..

[honeykid]

I, Claudius
Miss Marple (Joan Hickson)
The Singing Detective
Bleak House (2005)
The Life and Loves Of A She-Devil
Hollywood Wives (sorry, but I loved it)
Sex And The City
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1988)
Salem's Lot (1979)
Sherlock Holmes (Various)
House Of Cards Trilogy
Monkey
The Long Firm
Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark (1980)

[genesis_pig]

Singing Detective, that's something I've been meaning to catch up with for ages.

[Holden Pike]

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"Lonesome Dove"

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck_]

Probably the best I've seen was BBC's 1995 Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle...

I love it too :D

And of course the seminal 1981 Brideshead Revisited adaptation, clocking in at 14 hours!

[Thursday Next]

A few good ones:

Pride and Prejudice

http://www.students.stedwards.edu/hmattes/pride-and-prejudice.jpg

Fingersmith

http://www.alwaandykes.com/fingersmith.jpg

Middlemarch

http://www.utoronto.ca/stmikes/kelly/images/middlemarch.jpg

The Forsyte Saga

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Little Dorrit

http://penguindevil.com/blog/blogpics/little_dorrit.jpg

Gormenghast

http://www.horreur.net/img/gormenghast-2000.jpg

Going Postal

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North and South

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Tipping the Velvet

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White Teeth

http://images.nymag.com/nymetro/arts/tv/reviews/tvreview_0505_175.jpg

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

http://www.justpressplay.net/images/stories/fallrisereginaldperrindvd.jpg

[honeykid]

It's impossible to make this any worse than the book. Horrid, horrid book. Possibly the only work of fiction that I truly hate. But then, I haven't read a lot of fiction. :p:D

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[Thursday Next]

It's better than the book.

[wintertriangles]

I enjoyed the atmosphere of Rose Red a lot, though I haven't seen it in years