Bleak House is the brave experiment made by the BBC in 2005, to dramatise Charles Dickens' famous novel in a new and exciting form.  Taking the premise that Dickens originally wrote the novel as a serial published in a nation newspaper, the BBC made it into a series of 15 half hour episodes, shown twice a week on thursdays and fridays. It had a soap opera format, using the swooping, moving camera tricks of contemporary dramas and having each episode end on a cliff hanger.  Just like any episode of Dallas!  It had the convoluted series of coincidences that move soap opera stories onwards and a complicated cast of characters, with new ones popping up all the time.  It was immensely popular and was sold on to countless numbers of countries to be shown again and again.  It also boasted the only television appearance of Gillian Anderson, after the X-Files.  (She had turned other television serials down and had concentrated on live theatre, until she was offered the role of Lady Dedlock.)

This fanlisting was opened on january 1 2006.  It was built using paintshop pro and netscape composer, with a little help from IE and notepad with pictures from the BBC site. It is in the television series section in thefanlistings.org.   If you would like to affiliate, send me an email.