The way they advertise this programme, as if it's exciting and 'great to watch.'

Real people died in this story. Raped and murdered, including a baby. Also the death at the hands of the state of an innocent man.

I would never watch anything that glamorises real events.



Exactly, and that film told it as it was. It didn't glamorise anything.

Richard Attenborough gave the finest acting performance I have EVER seen in that film

IMHO he was massively underrated as an actor

I've set for it to be recorded. I enjoyed (for want of a better word) the original so I'm curious as to how the series will go.

Reviewed on Friday on The Wright Stuff and it was said to be very grim, as you'd expect. The movie was a hard-watch back in the day and still is now but at least that was done and dusted in one sitting in less than two hours. I just question the need to sit through an episodic version of this over three weeks, into Christmas (which poses questions about the suitability of scheduling if you ask me) for something that is detailing such appalling depravity.

I don't have the stomach to watch it.

100% right any remake is pointless.

Or not, seeing as it was Dickie and not David - As pointed out multiple times!

Oh yes it was indeed Richard but his performance will not be beaten.

Cold, dark, chilling in every sense.

I noticed on the BBC site today it describes it s a thriller, which did seem rather tasteless - glad it wasn't just me

They always do this, when I watch Hollywood films depicting real people and look them up they are generally very plain looking people, but in the films they're played by the best looking people imaginable.

Not sure this is pre Christmas viewing but it is perhaps opportune as this country heads to the right with calls for death penalty getting louder that people are reminded of the realities.

I posted this on another thread a while back.
I visited Madam Tussauds in 1981, they had a replica of Christie's kitchen, with wax model of him. On the table was the actual glass jar he used to administer the gas to his poor victims.
It was on loan from the crime museum in London, very chilling to actually see it.
I'll watch tonight to see how it compares to the film.

I'm sure I remember seeing this too but it must have in the late sixties, I was horrified.

I seriously doubt it's going to 'glamorise' anything.

Can you honestly say you've never seen anything that glamorises real-life events?

Well we haven't seen the latest version yet so I will keep my powder dry.

I take it then you wouldn't watch as an example Wolf Hall?

The Attenborough / Hurt / Gleason film was 1971.

The advantage of the original is that it was filmed in the same street in a neighbouring house and, of course, was made much nearer the time. The decor, fixtures and fittings were authentic as they would still have existed in post war Britain.

Judging by the clip I saw Evans sounded less Welsh than John Hurt and Beryl sounded more cockney than Judy Geeson.

Looking forward to this tonight. Each one is told from the perspective of one person, Christie's wife first, then Evans then Christie himself.

i wonder if we'll get authentic racist language when the appalling Christie finds that west indians are moving in in the surrounding flats.

it's difficult to warm to him at all.

I was born in the mid 1940's and read about the court case and hangings about 2 years after Christie was hanged.

In my personal opinion, the Dickie Attenborough film of 1971 cannot be surpassed. As has been said, he gave his best ever acting performance for this.

I will watch the BBC version, but in my mind and thoughts will still be the film version, which IMHO should be screened again, say on BBC.

When a copper first visited him he noticed a nasty smell in his flat so Christie said "it's those foreigners around here cooking their smelly foods"

Not the film, Christies kitchen in Madame Tussaud's, it was really creepy.

The film is a tour de force, but I will still be watching this series version.

Massively underrated as a baddie. He was great in Brighton Rock too, really nasty. But in most films he was a goodie or the hero or twinkly granddad or Santa type.

That house looks like it was wallpapered by a blind man.

Was he just released from prison or was that a hospital?