Brideshead Revisited (TV serial)
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| Written by |
Evelyn Waugh (novel) Derek Granger et al. (script) |
| Directed by |
Charles Sturridge Michael Lindsay-Hogg |
| Starring |
Jeremy Irons Anthony Andrews Diana Quick |
| Theme music composer | Geoffrey Burgon |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 11 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Derek Granger |
| Running time | 659 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Granada Television |
| Distributor | ITV Studios |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV |
| Picture format | 4:3 |
| Audio format | Mono |
| Original release | 12 October – 22 December 1981 |
Brideshead Revisited is a 1981 British television serial starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews, and produced by Granada Television for broadcast by the ITV network. The serial is an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited (1945). Although John Mortimer was given a credit in the titles, Valerie Grove's A Voyage Round John Mortimer revealed that Mortimer's script was never used and that the series was actually written by the producer Derek Granger and others. The bulk of the serial was directed by Charles Sturridge, with a few sequences filmed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg.
Broadcast in 11 episodes, the serial premiered on ITV in the UK on 12 October 1981, on CBC Television in Canada on 19 October 1981, and as part of the Great Performances series on PBS in the United States on 18 January 1982.
In 2000, the serial was 10th on a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes compiled by the British Film Institute, based on a poll of industry professionals. In 2007, the serial was listed as one of TIME magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-Time". In 2010, it was second in The Guardian newspaper's list of the top 50 TV dramas of all time. In 2015, The Telegraph listed it as #1 in the greatest television adaptations, stating that "Brideshead Revisited is television’s greatest literary adaptation, bar none. It's utterly faithful to Evelyn Waugh's novel yet it's somehow more than that, too."
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