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Please sir, may we have more modern drama?

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20080107
Author:Raymond Snoddy ON BROADCASTING

It was a tale of three Dickens over Christmas, with the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 all wallowing in Victorian grit and nostalgia. For pure dramatic intensity, the 10 points should probably go to the BBC's Oliver Twist, right, but The Old Curiosity Shop from ITV and A Christmas Carol from Channel 4 were not far behind.

Overall in the historic literary stakes, the BBC continues to forge ahead. Cranford was exceptional and gave long-overdue television attention to the undervalued Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell.

And Jane Austen can never be far from our thoughts as yet another Sense and ...

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