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I've not read any Anthony Trollope, but I know that there are a few Trollope readers looking in on this journal. Media Guardian are reporting that
Andrew Davies is adapting Trollope's Palliser novels for the BBC, as a series of 30-minute episodes on the model of 2005's Bleak House.
I've only seen one episode of the 1974 The Pallisers, on the BBC Archive Trial last year; it was splendidly dull and weighed down by the miscasting of Philip Latham as Plantagenet opposite a detached Susan Hampshire as Glencora; there seemed little encouragement in the production for the viewer to want to continue to follow these characters, who were nonetheless being built into the focus of the series. The Pallisers became notorious for a strike-bound production which led to the final episode not actually being finished when it was scheduled for broadcast, and (I think) a repeat run of the whole twenty-six part epic starting instead, awaiting the end of the strike so the final episode could have its studio sessions taped and edited.
Andrew Davies is adapting Trollope's Palliser novels for the BBC, as a series of 30-minute episodes on the model of 2005's Bleak House.
I've only seen one episode of the 1974 The Pallisers, on the BBC Archive Trial last year; it was splendidly dull and weighed down by the miscasting of Philip Latham as Plantagenet opposite a detached Susan Hampshire as Glencora; there seemed little encouragement in the production for the viewer to want to continue to follow these characters, who were nonetheless being built into the focus of the series. The Pallisers became notorious for a strike-bound production which led to the final episode not actually being finished when it was scheduled for broadcast, and (I think) a repeat run of the whole twenty-six part epic starting instead, awaiting the end of the strike so the final episode could have its studio sessions taped and edited.
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