Laurel Ann Nattress of AustenProse writes "Affairs of the heart populate episode two with hopes and aspirations for all of the unattached characters in Masterpiece Classic's miniseries of Little ...

The BBC has been adapting the novels of Charles Dickens for as long as it’s been doing drama. What’s new is the depth and breadth — OK, the length — of the latest TV versions, the most recent being ...

Audiences for the latest BBC costume drama serial Little Dorrit have fallen to as little as 3.8 million per episode only halfway through its run. The adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel, has seen ...

My Summer School assignment was going to be “Little Dorrit.” Not that I had passed up “Little Dorrit” on my high school’s summer reading list. It had never been there. Only the most standard of ...

Charles Dickens wrote big, long books, and when his books become movies it’s good to make them big and long as well. His many-tendriled, twisty plots can be pruned and compressed with some success -- ...

When you spend a third of your day with adolescents, you get a close look at social structures--sometimes too close! Although most of my students would scoff at reading 800 pages of nineteenth century ...

Little Dorrit concluded its lengthy run with 4.18m (18.8%) in the 8pm hour on Wednesday night. The Dickens adaptation - split over 12 half-hour and two one-hour episodes - has averaged a respectable 3 ...

Melik Kaylan's piece, "Spoiled Borat" (editorial page, Nov. 9) accomplishes two howlers in its second sentence. He writes, "'Borat,' now playing in packed theaters, brings to mind an old Oscar Wilde ...

premieres Wednesday, on two cassettes from Warner Home Video: ”Film One: Nobody`s Fault” and ”Film Two: Little Dorrit`s Story” (rated G, $89.95 each, closed-captioned). Both films will be available ...

Writer Andrew Davies applied his quill pen to adapting a number of Jane Austen novels before tackling Charles Dickens' "Bleak House," and he's back with another sprawling, impeccably cast PBS ...