Brideshead Revisited (TV series)

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Brideshead Revisited is a 1981 British television serial created by Derek Granger based on Evelyn Waugh's novel of the same name. Starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews, it was produced by Granada Television for broadcast by the ITV network. The serial is considered one of the 100 best TV shows of all time by Time magazine. The serial is an adaptation of the 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of Charles Ryder, with special focus on his friendship with Lord Sebastian Flyte and his family of wealthy and titled English Catholics, who live in Brideshead Castle, a palatial Baroque mansion in Wiltshire in the South West of England and shot at Castle Howard, in Henderskelfe. The screenplay was written by the series' producer Derek Granger and others, as the credited, original one written by John Mortimer was not used. Charles Sturridge said that 95% of the dialogue was from Waugh's novel. The 11-episode serial...

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