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The Forsytes return; Thirty-five years on from the epic BBC series, ITV's version of the Victorian family saga is even better;Scene & Heard.

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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20020314
Author:Billen, Andrew

Byline: ANDREW BILLEN

LIKE the movie of L Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz, the BBC's Forsyte Saga was an achievement so monumental that it not merely obliterated its source from view, but almost replaced it. Now, 35 years on, Granada has made its own Forsyte Saga, an entirely new adaptation of a Victorian epic written, as we very probably do need reminding, by John Galsworthy. If you want to irritate an ITV executive, ask why they thought a remake was necessary.

As the new Forsyte Saga's producer, Sita Williams, told a rapturous preview audience at Bafta in Piccadilly this ...

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