italophile
Monday 26th November 2012 7:59am
214 posts
Quote: Ian Wolf @ November 26 2012, 6:51 AM GMT
Because the TV version wasn't Bleak Expectations, but another series set in the same kind of world. It was a different programme.
But in identical style and tone to BE, aiming to achieve the same thing in a different medium. And it didn't work nearly as well. Partly, I think, because so much of BE's success is down to the medium - the listener's imagination is a huge contributor to the mixture. With TV, it takes an awful lot of ingenuity to trigger the viewers' imagination in the same way and they didn't. The dire direction didn't help. It was leaden, literal, and entirely lacking in style or tone.