Article: MAGGIE GETS THE BIOPIC TREATMENT AND . . . . YOU END UP QUITE LIKING HER TV AND RADIO GUIDE

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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