A tale of too many remakes: why we never need to see a Dickens novel on TV ever again | Television

Olivia Colman and Shalom Brune-Franklin in Great Expectations.

Television needs to stop rolling out Charles Dickens adaptations – and this is coming from someone whose lockdown project was writing an Oliver Twist prequel about Nancy (binned after three chapters due to insufficient oom-pah-pah). […]

Adapt and survive: why Dickens still endures on page, stage and screen | Charles Dickens

Dev Patel, Rosalind Eleazar and Hugh Laurie in The Personal History of David Copperfield.

What is it about Great Expectations? Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s new dramatisation of Dickens’s novel is the seventh BBC adaptation – the first appearing on screens in 1954. Cinema has loved it too. David […]

Nick Hornby on Dickens and Prince: ‘They were both superstars in their own lifetimes’ | Nick Hornby

Prince performing at Wembley Arena, London, on the Parade tour, 1986.

Most people will do a double-take on hearing the premise of your new book – it’s such a novel idea that Charles Dickens and Prince are from the same mould.Well, I didn’t worry too much […]