In 2002 the first two books and the first interlude of John Galsworthy's trilogy The Forsyte Saga were adapted by Granada Television for the ITV network, although, like the 1967 production, the miniseries took many liberties with Galsworthy's original work. Additional funding for this production was provided by American PBS station WGBH, the BBC version having been a success on PBS in the early 1970s.
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In 2002 the first two books and the first interlude of John Galsworthy's trilogy The Forsyte Saga were adapted by Granada Television for the ITV network, although, like the 1967 production, the miniseries took many liberties with Galsworthy's original work. Additional funding for this production was provided by American PBS station WGBH, the BBC version having been a success on PBS in the early 1970s.
Malcolm Bradbury, one of the writers on the 1967 series, found that approaching the new series "brings a tear to the eye and a smile to the lips": A tear because time had passed the culturally-significant original by, but smile because investment in a classic project is good.
The makers of the 2002 version felt that any new production would be compared with the 1967 version, which set the standards for period drama for the next twenty-five years. The idea came initially from David Liddiment, ITV's director of channels, who seized on the Forsyte novels not only as a great achievement in...
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