BBC1, Dracula - pants or what?!

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What a (cheap) load of old rubbish.

And why doesn't anything nice EVER happen in Victorian London?!

Just about to turn it off and go to bed and read my book. Which BTW is fantastic. It's called the Fourth Bear and it's by Jasper Fforde.

I really like the guy playing Dracula but in this he looks really awful -and not just because of the teeth and large amounts of blood dripping form his mouth.

ruby in the smoke was quite good last night, i'm watching swap shop which is like the keith chegwin show - what an annoying wally he is

Victorian London was a bit mince actually, what with Jack the Ripper, Dracula and typhoid

Im watching swap shop

Yeah was pretty crap wasnt it? Glad I didnt live in those times realy. Was pretty miserable. Cant believe I had my bath and got my lo's in bed especialy to watch it

Anyone else have a Soupy the Bat flash when the Dracula bat was crawling up Minna's curtains? I think I may be MNing too much...

It was a bit much, wasn't it. I don't think the whole syphilis thing was in the original book, was it? It's ages since I read it so can't remember.

that was SHIT!

Very succinct, Expat. I thought it might be bad so I didn't bother watching. Glad I didn't miss out.

Was this the film or something new?

It was a one-off on BBC1(?) with Marc Warren wearing the teeth.

Oh bollocks I just assumed it was the film which i've seen i would have watched it otherwise!

be glad you were spared, it was SHIT.

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I thought Marc Warren made a great count, but they raced through the (considerably changed) story so fast there was no time to develop any of the characters. Good to see Dan wotsit from Line of Beauty on our screens again though!

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leave my pants out of it

Another not impressed here, I only watched about half an hour... molesworth - talk about considerably changed! I mean I know it often helps to change bits when televising things but jeez, just make it up as you go along why don't you?

What was the point? Just to get the syphilis bit in there but the actual vampire story was exactly the same. Very disappointing, bring back Mr Teatime.

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He's like a young Malcolm McDowell (think A Clockwork Orange) - that's why I like him, so good at playing nasties.

DH went to be after about an hour ranting about why people feel the need to change a classic and the very loose use of the word 'Adaptation' - not impressed at all.