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From: The Mirror (London, England)
Date: 20040420
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Byline: Jim Shelley

JUST when you thought you couldn't face another costume drama/bonnet fest, along comes the BBC's adaptation of He Knew He Was Right.

Written in 1869 by Anthony Trollope - a man whose surname pre-determined some of his raciest characters - He Knew He Was Right was, from its title onwards, the classiest, most modern, drama on television this week.

It certainly made Bad Girls - which seems to be set in a Victorian workhouse - look horribly dated and, despite its most demented efforts, dull.

Episode one alone included Anna Massey, Jane ...

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