Jekyll

James Nesbitt takes the lead in this dark, twisting, slightly predictable Moffat romp with visions of Sherlock, which eventually loses momentum and ends up taking itself a bit too seriously.

Great Expectations

Can Sarah Phelps' adaptation live up to previous
outings of Dickens greats? © BBC 2011

At last, another big Dickensian on the BBC. Having been blown away in my mid-teens by Andrew Davies’ gaspingly epic Bleak House (just look at the cast list – 50 names in the principal corps and not one of them without a Wikipedia article) and the slightly smaller but no less enjoyable Little Dorrit in 2008, it’s about time. But does this three-hour tiddler show the BBC tightening its purse strings, or a lesser commitment to gargantuan period storytelling? Let’s hope not.