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Television

War & Peace is actually just an upmarket Downton Abbey

Andrew Davies’s superb adaptation for BBC1 understands this and was a blessing after the special time-travel edition of what everyone is now rightly calling Shitlock

9 January 2016

9:00 AM

9 January 2016

9:00 AM

Gosh what a breath of fresh air was Andrew Davies’s War & Peace adaptation (BBC1, Sundays) after all the stale rubbish that was on over Christmas. There were times when the yuletide TV tedium got so bad that I considered preparing us all a Jonestown-style punchbowl. That way, we would never have had to endure Walliams and Friend nor the special time-travel edition of what everyone is now rightly calling Shitlock.

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