Produced by Tony Jordan’s Red Planet Pictures, the project of half-hours is set in 19th century London, within the fictional realms of Dickens’ classic novels. Storylines have been sourced out of back ...

There are no comforting storylines here. It’s got human trafficking, murder and misery – and all before the watershed In an age when many of us approach TV like obsessive music fans, for ever in ...

Before the big wigs and bleak background make you write this off as a stuffy Victorian drama, hold your horses. These are the stories of Charles Dickens as you’ve never seen them before. There’s ...

Big-budget drama launched with 5 million viewers, but lost audience over the course of its 20-episode run The BBC has axed its drama Dickensian after just one series, despite spending an estimated ...

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