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| Collage from Enchanted Serenity of Period Films |
It's not a secret I greatly appreciate British TV drama. Their productions are mostly very good, especially those revisiting the literary classics. Well, also modern drama is sometimes brilliant . I loved Spooks very much , for instance, but I also liked the Moving On series, The Hour, A Single Father. I started watching British TV or buying DVDs for my interest in period drama, a genre in which they are masters, especially when it comes to adaptations of classics. And this is what they are amazing at : adapting their classics respecting their literary tradition. Something we totally lack on our TV here in Italy. I've seen so many beautiful series in the last three years: Austen's novels adaptations were brilliant, but also Gaskell and Eliot, Dickens and Thomas Hardy among others. My best favourite quite recent classic series are The Buccaneers, Our Mutual Friend, Daniel Deronda, North and South, Wives and Daughter, Middlemarch, Jane Eyre 2006, Bleak House,