This four-hour acquisition -- adapted from Michael Faber's novel -- is sumptuously filmed and intriguingly offbeat, yet ultimately fails to deliver a payoff worthy of its come-on. Like other premium ...

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Romola Garai, who starred in the period newsroom thriller “The Hour” — a hit British import that on BBC America was also one of the highlight’s of last year’s American television — is the star as well ...

Now here's Romola Garai taking aim at the enigmatic Sugar, the hooker with a keen intellect but possibly not a heart of gold from Michel Faber's novel, The Crimson Petal and the White. Faber's 800-odd ...

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It is in a particular vision of the grimy underbelly of Victorian London, where Oliver Twist merges with adult cable TV visions of hookers, waifs and repressed upper-crust society, that we encounter ...

In a doubleheader, Encore will kick off its “Big Miniseries Showcase” on September 10 and 11 with the North American debut of “The Crimson Petal and the White,” starring Romola Garai (“Emma”) as a ...

We kid ourselves that at a certain point we’re mature enough to stop judging books by their covers; but when it comes to Victorian novels, there’s no denying we judge them by their thickness. What ...

Sugar is sweet, but only up to a point in the compelling British adaptation of Michel Faber's epic novel, "The Crimson Petal and the White," coming to the Encore cable channel Monday and Tuesday.

The Crimson Petal And The White debuts tonight on Encore at 8 p.m. Eastern. It may be too early to tell whether it’s a coincidence, a trend, or the working out of a metaphor for our times that will ...

Here’s a tale of a true city. London, 1874. Whores, high society, smut-soaked streets, the polished ceilings of Royal Albert Hall. The Crimson Petal and the White, Michel Faber’s bulging, bawdy ...