http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=7460 Contemporary and classic British TV Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:09:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=7460&cpage=1#comment-3059 annoyingmouse Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:32:04 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=7460#comment-3059 I recently watched Fellowes’ now seemingly almost completely forgotten 1995 version of Little Lord Fauntleroy (which came with the recent blink-and-you’ve-missed-it dvd release of the still brilliant Moondial) and was pleasantly surprised at how good a series it was. I’d never come across it before and, much as I’ve really enjoyed Fellowes’ other work, I wasn’t expecting this to be great but was suitably impressed by the way he managed to write a series that appeared to me to present a reasonably realistic portrayal of the upstairs downstairs life without being patronising to its young audience. It was genuinely like Gosford Park for kids. I sat down to watch one episode with the suspicion that I’d turn it off quickly only to end up watching the whole thing in the one sitting. Lovely stuff. Still, Fellowes would’ve made a shit baddie in Willow.

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