The battle of the costume dramas kicked off in earnest this weekend with Andrew Davies' adaption of Daniel Deronda on BBC1 on Saturday and ITV1's Dr Zhivago - also scripted by Davies - on Sunday.

I’m a Zionist who often walks through the campus of Columbia University, which since October 7 means I feel like Dr. Evil in a frumpy sweater. The protest chant du jour is “Min el-maiyeh lel mayieh, ...

This weekend sees the start of two serious television dramas: George Eliot's Daniel Deronda on BBC1, and Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago on ITV1. Both have been adapted by Andrew Davies. Despite in ...

Daniel Deronda, George Eliot's final novel, published in 1876, has always been thought unfilmable. Its predecessors, Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss and Adam Bede, have made it-several times, in ...

Gwendolen Harleth, at the start of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, is beautiful, confident, ambitious and witty. She is also narcissistic and impulsive. By the novel's end she has endured marriage to a ...

Rumours abounded earlier this year about whether BBC One and ITV1 would go head to head with their new costume dramas, Daniel Deronda and Doctor Zhivago. In the end, it was decided that Daniel Deronda ...

Daniel's quest to discover the truth about his identity takes him overseas to Genoa Daniel's quest to discover the truth about his identity takes him overseas to Genoa, where he meets the Contessa, a ...

“Daniel Deronda,” George Eliot’s final novel, is such a long (849 pages), complex work, I could not see how it could possibly be squeezed into a 3 1/2-hour time frame on PBS’ “Masterpiece Theatre” ...

Daniel Deronda is a British television serial drama adapted by Andrew Davies from the George Eliot novel of the same name. The serial was directed by Tom Hooper, produced by Louis Marks, and was first ...

Daniel Deronda: Two-part "Masterpiece Theatre" presentation. Starring Hugh Dancy and Romola Garai. 9 p.m. Sunday and Monday, KQED. As "Masterpiece Theatre" continues its prolonged cha-cha through all ...

THEODORA, one day early in the autumn, sat on her piazza with a piece of embroidery, the design of which she invented as she proceeded, being careful, however, to have a Japanese screen before her, to ...

The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot, by Gertrude Himmelfarb (Encounter Books, 250 pp., $25.95) From a purely literary point of view, criticism that praises the Gwendolen episodes while heaping scorn on ...