Many know the tale of Charles Dicken's famous and classic novel Great Expectations and now there is going to be a new adaptation of the story shown on BBC One. With an impressive cast featuring Olivia Coleman, Shalom Brune-Franklin and Trystan Gravelle, the drama is being directed by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.
The new series is expected to be a darker story than is usually pictured and comes only 12 years after the BBC's last adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic novel. The cast includes Fionn Whitehead as Pip, Shalom Brune-Franklin as Estella, Ashley Thomas as Mr Jaggers and Johnny Harris as Magwitch while Welsh actor Trystan Gravelle takes on the role of Compeyson.
You can read everything you need to know about Great Expectations here. Great Expectations will begin on Sunday, March 26 at 9pm on BBC One. You can keep up to date with the latest TV and showbiz news by signing up to the newsletter here.
There will be six one-hour long episodes in the series, with the second instalment airing on Sunday, April 2 at 9pm on BBC One. Great Expectations is the coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan who yearns for a greater lot in life until a twist of fate and the evil machinations of the mysterious and eccentric Miss Havisham show him a dark world of possibilities.
Under the great expectations placed upon him, Pip will have to work out the true cost of this new world and whether it will truly make him the man he wishes to be. A damning critique of the class system, Dickens’ novel was published in 1861 after first releasing it in a series of weekly chapters beginning in December 1860.
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