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BBC set to film feature length costume dramas for film

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 19960828
Author:MARIANNE MACDONALD Arts Correspondent

The costume drama battle between the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 was stepped up yesterday with the BBC's announcement that it is to film George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss and Wilkie Collins' detective novel, The Moonstone.

Hugh Stoddart is writing the screenplay based on Eliot's seminal novel, which tells the tragic story of the bright and impulsive Maggie Tulliver whose family falls into poverty after her father's death. Emily Watson, star of the forthcoming feature film, Breaking the Waves, is to play Maggie Tulliver, and James Frain, who acted alongside Ted Danson in Loch Ness, is to play ...

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