Some of the new adaptions of one of Charles Dicken's most beloved novels, Great Expectations, have been controversial, leading to a debate about how far new adaptations should stray from the original.

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An honorable, sober but completely unnecessary take on the Dickens novel, “Great Expectations” serves as a fine introduction to the story but won’t excite those familiar with previous versions.

Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" boasts one of the literature's most enigmatic and forbidding figures in Miss Havisham, the jilted bride who spends the rest of her days in her wedding gown as ...

FX, in partnership with the BBC, has made a dreary, dismal and not very Dickensian miniseries out of Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations.” And while that seems to be in some measure the ...

At the start of FX and the BBC’s new six-part “Great Expectations,” a young man walks to the center of a bridge on the River Thames, pauses to look out over the London vista, then swiftly ...

Much of Great Expectations, however, seems to be reaching for edginess for its own sake. That game scene is intercut with one of Sarah engaging in some light BDSM with Mr. Pumblechook (Matt Berry ...

Great Expectations: A "Masterpiece Classic" presentation. Part 1 at 9 p.m. Sun. Part 2 next Sun. on PBS. Assembling an all-star cast for a new PBS adaptation of one of Charles Dickens' best-known ...

Pip (Jeremy Irvine) pines for Estella (Holliday Grainger) in Charles Dickens’s familiar tale, reimagined once more in Mike Newell’s “Great Expectations.” (Johan Persson) There's a reason ...

You won’t have the best of times, or the worst of times, watching the new, six-part “Great Expectations,” which belches out the problems of literary adaptation with the dyspeptic regularity ...