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A peek into ‘Dickensian’

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At last, Tony Jordan gives us a few details about what his upcoming series Dickensian is going to be like! His teaser, from an article in the Independent, is under the cut . . .

"I am about to make a new drama series for BBC1 called Dickensian. It will be a world inhabited by all of Charles Dickens' wonderful characters; a world where Fagin from Oliver Twist can talk to Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol; where Little Nell from The Old Curiosity Shop shares a bun with Clara Peggotty from David Copperfield; and Honoria Barbary from Bleak House is best friends with the young Miss Havisham from Great Expectations. A world in which Scrooge & Marley's counting house is in the same street as The Old Curiosity Shop, Venus the taxidermist, The Three Cripples Pub, Fagin's lair and the offices of Tulkinghorn & Jaggers. A world in which we will discover how Jacob Marley died and what happened to Miss Havisham on her wedding day… and yes, we'll have a few cliffhangers."

Read the whole article here. (Turns out The Secret Life of Books actually led to Dickensian, and not the other way around!)

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  1. Sean Phillips Avatar
    Sean Phillips

    This kinda begs the question–is there a “shared universe” where Dickens characters can interact. This concept is a relatively new one, and I don’t think characters in any one of Dickens’ originals ever crossed paths with someone form another novel. But it’s possible–I think of all of his stories taking place in the same reality. And in that reality Dickens himself, I’d wager wouldn’t exist, even though in some pastiches I know of, the characters meet up with the author. One recent example that “hinted” at the whole shared universe concept was a recent BBC version of Bleak House, in which a “Mr. Brownlow” was addressed in a courtroom. I don’t thing this occurred in the book. Was it the same same Brownlow in Oliver Twist(or a relation)? We’ll probably never know.

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  2. Cody Avatar
    Cody

    Did (Whatever his name was) really hate the original ending to Great Expectations that much? I thought he just told Dickens that his readership would probably prefer a different one.

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  5. He did an audiobook of A Christmas Carol too.

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