Tony Jordan, creator of BBC’s new show, Dickensian, knows he may be ‘pissing off the Dickens community’ – but boy, are they going to be pissed while watching an epic TV show.
The 20-part series of half hour episodes by former EastEnders executive producer cleverly mash-up everyone’s favourite Dickens stories – The Old Curiosity Shop sits next to The Three Cripples Inn, and Fagin’s Den is hidden down the alley – and bring them crashing into each other’s lives.
After all, why wouldn’t these shadowy characters from the back streets of Victorian London know each other?
But is this classic Boxing Day TV? Let’s find out…