Mapp & Lucia (2014)

My highlight: Mapp and Lucia

I was worried when I heard there was to be a new TV adaptation of E.F. Benson's wonderful novels of interwar snobbery, but Miranda Richardson and Anna Chancellor are a credit to the great man.

Mapp & Lucia: Discover the delights of Rye

Follow in Miranda Richardson and Anna Chancellor's footsteps in this charming literary Sussex town.

"She always follows the latest fashions - we can only hope that one day she catches up to them ..." Miranda Richardson and Anna Chancellor are more than a match for each other as Lucia and Mapp in this delicous, acid-tongued adaptation of EF Benson's 1930s cut-throat world of garden fetes from Steve "League of Gentlemen" Pemberton.

Mapp and Lucia: A tale of two genteel rivals revived

A comic saga of two staunch rivals, their one-upmanship and eccentric friends in a 1930s Sussex town has been revived for the small screen.

Mapp and Lucia: Hilarious and delightfully bitchy

Miranda Richardson and Anna Chancellor are on top form in this festive three-parter as two upper-class snobs try to out-do each other by whatever means necessary.

A Steve Pemberton-scripted adaptation of EF Benson's arch novels of small-town social snobbery. Mapp And Lucia may seem to have comedy gold written all over it, but in truth this opener takes too long to get going and, for all everyone involved seems to be having fun, at moments lacks pace and zing. Things improve, however, once busybody Elizabeth Mapp (Miranda Richardson) and regal Emmeline Lucas, AKA Lucia (Anna Chancellor), begin to battle in earnest to lead Tilling society. Continues tomorrow and New Year's Eve.

Miranda Richardson interview

"I constantly want to give up acting, but I don't know what else I'd do."

Can new take on Mapp and Lucia compare to 1985 series?

The BBC's new version is written by The League of Gentlemen's Steve Pemberton, who says we should expect "a genteel version of Royston Vasey".

Mapp and Lucia, TV review

The ensemble cast save the day in this quaint and quirky comedy.