Julian Fellowes' Belgravia - starts tonight, ITV1

[QueenOfTheAndals]

Anyone planning on watching? I loved Downton so I'm looking forward to this. It might be just the sort of escapist drama featuring posh people in nice frocks that we all need right now!

Anyone betting on Sophia having died in childbirth ?

That's what I was thinking.

I doubt whether physical contact between Sophia and Bellasis have would have been permitted in public.

Yes-i thought Sophia may have died in childbirth too.

It’s painting by numbers, isn’t it -a bit of Vanity Fair, a bit of Downton, a bit of every other bonneted drama

Want Gene Hunt in Vanity Fair?

He was Dobbin, I think ?

Just looked it up - the 1998 version, with Natasha Little as a very good Becky Sharp

Hold on - this dubious wedding is very familiar......

Bellisis was a twat.

Hmm a bit too modern for the 1840's I think.

Yes-the Natasha Little version. With Tom Ward. .

I like it, it’s got potential.

I liked it but I couldn't believe how calm Tamsin Greig was when her dd told her she was pregnant.

This was pure tripe! Dreadful scripting, actors unable to pull it much above the watermark as a result.

I enjoyed it.

It’s going to drive me nuts until I remember where that fake wedding plot device was used before

@JellyfishandShells

In the White Queen

.....when Edward IV married Elizabeth Woodville.

Ambiguous as to whether it was real or not.

But Richard 111 used the uncertainty as the basis for declaring that Edward V and his brother Richard were illegitimate and that he was therefore the rightful heir (before they disappeared)

So crap I fucking loved it

Are they going to use the same actor to play Bellwotsis and Sophia's son? So he's easily identically as the heir?

Tamsin pretty much have it away in that scene where she says "whoops I now remember you don't have any other children". I love Tamsin.

The second half was better than the first. Once Harriet Walter appeared it seemed to improve. The servants' chat was very contrived I thought and your woman from The Commitments was awful.

I've recently read the book and have recorded the first episode. I'll watch to see how it's been adapted for TV.

Ah, possibly @tegucigalpa13 - you are right about that but I seem to remember another version of it set more in this or slightly later period.

Yes the servants' hall was especially painful

Tamsin Greig is class

I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Telly wise it was a great night what with this and the return of Great Karma Hospital.