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Article: MAGGIE GETS THE BIOPIC TREATMENT AND . . . . YOU END UP QUITE LIKING HER TV AND RADIO GUIDE
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- June 8, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright 2008 The Sunday Herald. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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AROUND the turn of the year, as Cranford shifted slowly to Lark
Rise To Candleford, it felt disturbingly as if the BBC had embarked
upon a psychotic campaign to choke us all to death with period
drama. Over the past few weeks, they've been at it again. This time,
though, instead of dressy literary adaptations, the fever is for
real, famous lives and the dramatisations that may be wrung out of
them, and then rammed down our throats.
Of course, we've always had biopics on television, but never,
surely, so many as now. There was barely time to digest the quartet
of films in BBC Four's Curse of Comedy strand before Julie Walters
appeared dressed as Mary Whitehouse, and now, with the scent of ...
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