Hmm, damn.
Not sure at all how I feel about that. On one hand, I don't mind doing something new with the character and the story, especially since we have (generally) faithful adaptations from Suchet and other filmmakers. But on the other, this sounds like something that may have gone too far.
I have to say, even though I'm glad that we are getting a bunch of new Christie adaptations, I'm not totally sure that the BBC is the right one to bring them to us. Even beyond their unfaithfulness, they're all so dour when Christie's stories never took themselves that seriously and always had a twinkle in their eye. And they also try to be stylish to the point where it becomes distracting.
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Sueps (24)
5 years ago
"I'm not totally sure that the BBC is the right one to bring them to us"
Funny you should say that, I was thinking the same thing. ITV seems so much better at that sort of thing now. The episodes of Maigret they did with Rowan Atkinson were excellent but unfortunately that has now been cancelled. There was far too much darkness in this ABC Murders, no twinkle anywhere! It would have been better if the producers had written an entirely new story with an entirely new detective. The setting of this seemd more like that in SSGB, if you saw that.
The BBC seems set on self destruct at the moment, Radio 2 is going downhill fast and Doctor Who has pretty much gone down the pan in my opinion.
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PrimeMinisterX (8329)
5 years ago
I found a couple of articles from British media outlets discussing the mini-series and read through the comments and it seems like the people who have seen it are pretty divided. Some loved it, and some hated it. Didn't seem to be a lot of in-between.
Some comments were also directed toward the BBC itself, and those were universally negative. I don't live in the UK and only occasionally pay attention to their programming, but from what I gather a lot of people who are in the UK think the BBC has issues and spends too much time embedding their politics into their shows.
I know they do have a War of the Worlds adaptation coming up next year, and I am interested in seeing what they come up with for that one.
You are probably right about ITV, though I'm mostly basing that on the great job they did with the Poirot series.
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Sueps (24)
5 years ago
Yes, Poirot was really well done. Apparently Maigret was supposed to replace it but for some reason it's been cancelled, which is a shame as they were very well done too.
Not sure about the War of the Worlds, how much of a mess will they make with that? We will have to see. They definitely do let their politically correct left wing bias show far too much, that's half the problem with Doctor Who at the moment.
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