Bleak Expectations

[bibblebub]

Anyone else following series 4 on R4, Thursday evenings?

Series 1 was an excellent parody of Dickens but it has gone downhill ever since, with this latest series being far too silly (e.g. brain transplants into dinosaurs).

That's quite a shame but would it have been possible to maintain the original standard without it becoming too repetitive?

[scotman]

I agree totally. A case of a sequel too far. Total waste of acting talent.

[Count-A-Strong]

Typical BBC. Take a good idea and do it to death.

[bibblebub]

But there are only 6 episodes per series, did it need to get so bad so quickly?

[mushroom25]

i was lucky enough to get tickets to several recordings of series one and two - but only bothered to listen to a few episodes of the third.

a pity.

[scotman]

I think it was a quite irrational premise to begin with. Unless the writing is exceptional these things are good for one series only. In this case the writing barely made it through one series.