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`The Forsyte Saga' unfolds in grand style.

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From: Detroit Free Press (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune NewsService)
Date: 20020926
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Byline: Mike Duffy

The best new family drama on television this fall?

It's a smashing 21st-century version of a fabulous 19th-century story, "The Forsyte Saga," novelist John Galsworthy's classic British tale of a powerful Victorian family that has all the positive character traits _ arrogance and vanity being chief among them.

And let's not forgot that beneath their smug facade, the self-absorbed Forsytes also have a flair for grand romance, messy adultery, impassioned obsessions and wicked deceit. Oh, goody!

This elegant and ridiculously entertaining 8-hour ...

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