Watching right now...

The Old Curiosity Shop on PBS. It sucks. I admit I didn't like the novel much, but this production chops it into little tiny pieces. Even the great Derek Jacobi can't save this one. Toby Jones is scary as Quilp, but that's about the only thing that's good about it. I keep shouting at the screen: Die, Little Nell, die already! *lol*

Oh, Bryan Dick is in it, too. Wasted in a cameo as Little Nell's bad brother. And he meets a bad end (assuming they end it the way the book did, with Freddie drowning himself in Paris). But at least he's cute in it:




Oh, they butchered the book. Totally. They even changed the ending. The mysterious stranger was the grandfather's brother, not son. *rolls eyes*