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22 October 2005 (USA) moreAwards:
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A poetic failure more (6 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jonny Lee Miller | ... | Lord Byron |
 | Philip Glenister | ... | William Fletcher |
| Stephen Campbell Moore | ... | John Cam Hobhouse |
| Natasha Little | ... | Augusta Leigh |
 | Vanessa Redgrave | ... | Lady Melbourne |
 | Julie Cox | ... | Annabella Milbanke |
| Camilla Power | ... | Lady Caroline Lamb |
| Oliver Dimsdale | ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Sally Hawkins | ... | Mary Shelley |
| Michael Elwyn | ... | John Murray |
| Penny Downie | ... | Lady Judith Milbanke |
| David Ryall | ... | Sir Ralph Milbanke |
| Mali Harries | ... | Ann Rood |
| Branka Katic | ... | Teresa Guiccioli |
| Oliver Milburn | ... | Scrope Davies |
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The blue striped dress with long sleeves Mali Harries (Ann Rood) wears for her wedding is the same costume Gwyneth Paltrow (Emma Woodhouse) wears at Hartfield in Emma (1996). The same costume is also worn by a guest at the Towers in the opening scene of in "Wives and Daughters" (1999). The same costume is also worn by one of the maids at Chawton Cottage in Miss Austen Regrets (2008) (TV). moreQuotes:
Annabella Milbanke: What did you mean when you said you've done evil?Lord Byron: Nothing, I was bored.
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I've always been enthusiastic about period dramas, an art form in which the BBC has excelled in the past. This presentation of "Byron" was unbelievable. Unbelievably bad! The script was dreadful, the acting uninspired, and all the characters woefully insipid. Apparently Byron was "mad bad and dangerous to know", and set the ladies hearts all-a-flutter. Not in this production. Here he appeared as a tawdry jumped-up little squirt instead of a fiery hero of womenfolk and the Greek struggle for independence. It is said that Byron walked with a limp. This portrayal of the man was just limp all over.
I watched the whole two and a half hours waiting for something to spark into life. Not a splutter, not even a glimmer. It was utter tedium, if not downright boredom, from start to finish.
Having the opinion that no-one will ever better the Bard of Avon, I also believe that Byron's poetry is over-revered and to my mind should be flung on the back burner, and this dramatisation of his life should be accorded the same treatment.
I think the BBC lost its nous with this one