Vanity Fair

Clashes with 'Bodyguard' and as internet around here does not allow much in the way of downloading am going to have to stay with that. I enjoyed the BBC version a few years ago and even the Reece Witherspoon film was pretty good. Will await verdict on here and might invest in a DVD if its recommended.

I am going to record it too. I know nothing of the story so hope that I will enjoy it - fingers crossed!

Hated the book

I'll be watching it on ITV+1 after The Bodyguard.

I remember being allowed to stay up late to watch the TV version in the fifties. Most of it went over my head.

the last tv version was really good, so will compare and contrast the new one.

We did it for A or could have been O Level, so I'll be watching. I didn't like it much as a school study, but hope to find it more entertaining now I'm (a lot!) older.

Gosh. Hated the Bodyguard! I had recorded it but after the first episode I deleted the recordings and cancelled further recording.
I'm optimistic about Vanity Fair. ITV did Victoria very well. Fingers crossed!

I thought it was on the BBC as I seem to have been seeing a lot of adverts for it. We only get BBC here???????

It's on itv felice

Will be recording so we can whizz through the adverts.

I'll start watching it but might not bother finishing it if I don't like it. I'm sure a lot of us know how it ends anyway. I think I wrote an answer on Becky Sharpe in Higher English 61 years ago.

I haven't watched a tv costume drama since P&P in the 80s for all the reasons the OP mentioned.

I have occasionally dipped in to one or two only to quickly shake the dust off my feet for the same reason.

DGD, 10, watched my favourite P&P, the one before the Andrew Davies adaptation, where the script was by Fay Weldon. Her response was she much preferred it because it was much closer to the book and she thought the houses looked more real, like the inside of Jane Austen's home, which she had visited.

I shall watch it because I never managed to read much further than the battle of Waterloo in the book.
Hope it sticks to the story, but from the interview I listened to with the adaptor I have my doubts, as she is making it 'relevant.'

Oh MOnica I so LOVED P&P. I came to it with no enthusiasm at all - my daughter asked me to watch it with her. But it wasn't long before I was totally hooked by it. Well when I say 'it' I suppose I should admit that it was Mr Darcy that I was enthrall to. I thought he was gorgeous, so much so that eventually I wrote him my one and only 'fan' letter and after a good few months he wrote back with a signed photo..................... I have framed it and treasure it still!
Only the other day, when I had to stay in because we had workmen here, I sat and watched the whole box set again and loved it just as much again

Thanks Danni, I will watch out for it on the Flemish/Dutch channels, they use subtitles, easier to watch for me anyway.

Looking forward to it but shall record it to get rid of the adverts and I dont care if I nod of in The Bodyguard I could predict the rest of it now!

Dannirae I just thought that Jane and Eizabeth were miscast. It was the actress playing Jane who had the 'fine eyes', the actress playing Elizabeth didn't. I disliked the script and all the wet shirt business. Last of all, I will whisper it very quietly, I really did not like Colin Firth.

To be fair I have never seen a satisfactory Darcy, the nearest was Paul Daneman in the 1950s, but I was very young then. Darcy is only 2 dimensional in the book, a bit of a cardboard cutout and no script writer yet has succeeded in making him 3 dimensional in a dramatisation.

Disappointed, not very faithful to the book and subtleties ironed out. Amused by the sarky manservant but don't recall that he was in the book. And didn't Becky manage to get separated from the group at Vauxhall and have to be rescued by Dobbin in the book?
I much preferred the old BBC one.

I have just watched it and I LOVED it. I can't wait to watch the next episode.
I tried to read the book many years ago but gave up so I was surprised at how enjoyable it was.

Thought it was rather good. Cast so far well done except for George...hes not 'oily' enough. The BBC had it just right with the young actor who went on the be Henry V111 in The Tudors. I probably wont watch it any more though because I know the novel too well (did it with OU).....I know every twist and turn.

Becky is good - cheeky and feisty. The weird pop music during the intro seemed a bit out of place.

Watched it and thought it was quite good - I've never read the book or seen previous films or series about it so don't know the story. We'll watch the second episode tonight and see how it progresses.

Did anyone else think that Becky Sharp reminded them of Meghan Markle?

I'm so hoping I'll change my mind this evening and like it better!