Peter Firth #2

[lottanyman]

(28-02-2011 08:01 PM)Tea Lady Wrote:  Loved the episode of South Riding last night. Thought it was a little better than the first episode. I have not read the book but I am getting the impression that they are cutting quite large chunks out though. I guess South Riding may be another victim of reduced funding. A few years ago, it may have been 6 episodes instead of 3. Loved Peter, but not much screen time again. I think Edgar got more screen time and those meow's were definitely fake

It's true that they cut out quite large bits of the book to fit it into the 3 hour frame but astonishingly they have kept very true to the book until now.

The advantage here is that there are so many characters and stories in the book that it's quite easy to leave some of them out and to shorten it for TV without touching the story of the characters which they have decided to be important for the TV version.

I haven't yet watched the second episode but as far as I could see from the first one they have for example left out the story of a publican and his wife and also that of the Holly's neighbours. In the book these take quite a bit of space and are of course also a bit woven into some of the lives of the remaining characters of the TV South Riding but you can leave them out without problem.

Anyhow 5 or 6 episodes would have been better of course.