Description |
1 online resource (52 minutes) |
Playing Time |
005224 |
Description |
data file |
Note |
Title from resource description page (viewed July 24, 2017). |
Cast |
Gillian Anderson, Alun Armstrong, Charlie Brooks, Warren Clarke, Pauline Collins, Charles Dance, Phil Davis, Burn Gorman, Richard Harrington, Matthew Kelly, Patrick Kennedy, Denis Lawson, John Lynch, Anna Maxwell Martin, Alistair McGowan, Carey Mulligan, Nathaniel Parker, Natalie Press, Anne Reid, Ian Richardson, Hugo Speer, Liza Tarbuck, Johnny Vegas, Timothy West. |
Summary |
Andrew Davies' adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic tale. Young orphan Esther Summerson is brought to the High Court of Chancery, where she is thrown together with two wards of the court, Richard Carstone and Ada Clare. Both are caught up in the infamous suit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which brings nothing but ruin and despair to all it touches. Esther, Richard and Ada are sent to live at Bleak House, where they receive a friendly welcome from their rich guardian John Jarndyce. |
Language |
In English. |
Awards |
Nominated 2006 Satellite Awards, Best Miniseries |
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Nominated 2007 Golden Globes, Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television |
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Nominated 2007 Golden Globes, Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television |
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Won 2006 BAFTA Awards, Best Actress |
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Won 2006 BAFTA Awards, Best Costume Design |
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Won 2006 BAFTA Awards, Best Drama Serial |
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Won 2006 BAFTA Awards, Best Editing Fiction Entertainment |
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Won 2006 BAFTA Awards, Best Production Design |
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Won 2006 Peabody Awards |
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Won 2006 Primetime Emmy Awards, Outstanding Makeup for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Non-Prosthetic) |
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Won Primetime Emmy Awards, Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or Movie |
Local Note |
Alexander Street Theatre Performance and Design Collection: BBC Literary Adaptations in Video |
Subject |
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Bleak House -- Television adaptations.
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Actions and defenses -- England -- Drama.
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Murder -- Investigation -- England -- Drama.
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Orphans -- England -- Drama.
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Genre/Form |
Fiction television programs.
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Television adaptations.
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Television mini-series.
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Added Author |
Chadwick, Justin, director.
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Davies, Andrew, 1936- screenwriter.
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Stafford-Clark, Nigel, producer.
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Television adaptation of (work): Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Bleak House.
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British Broadcasting Corporation, production company.
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Deep Indigo Productions, production company.
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WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), production company.
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