Larkrise to Candleford

[betty swollocks]

What benefits do HD bestow Betty?

It's like having your vision corrected after a lifetime of short-sightedness.The picture itself is very very clear, everything is much more sharply defined and the colours more intense.

 

[simoncc]

I know I'm going to regret dignifying Simoncc's post by responding, but nevetheless...........

I have thoroughly enjoyed this series. True, the storylines have nothing to do with the trilogy, but given the sheer entertainment provided, I don't give a chuff. Why do you consider the "supposedly discerning TV viewer" as dumbed down? (unless of course you are referring to yourself!). The trailers for the series never stated it was a factual dramatisation of the book, and given it was to be transmitted on a Sunday evening, the implication was that entertainment was its main object. Not all of us want a diet of education each and every time we switch on the electric fishtank, and certainly when I do, I'll reach for the original (in this case the book) every time. There is little enough on the box these days worth praising, but when there is, then due credit is proper.

Most people like drivel on TV, and on Sunday night they like costume drama drivel on TV. The TV Lark Rise is so little to do with the book it's ridiculous and misleading to give it the same name. The programme is nothing more than dumbed down costume drama set in the 1880s instead of dumbed down drama set in the present which forms most of the BBC's output. The book is very interesting, entertaining and educational, not a series of plodding little plots so beloved of the Eastenders and Casualty tellywatching crowd.

One thing is certain. If the book had contained the dreadful material of the TV series it would not be the classic it remains 60 years after publication.

 

[simon l& and a half]

I know I'm going to regret dignifying Simoncc's post by responding, but nevetheless...........
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you will, you will. Is it me, or has the BBC thing got even more boring than ever?

Still, I'm hoping that he was adding to the viewing figures of 'Guilty Pleasures' over on ITV. Now that's a kwalitee programme.