Dashed expectations

MUCH hoo-ha about BBC TV’s new adaptation of Great Expectations – (starring Shalom BruneFranklin, left) from the creator of

Peaky Blinders.

I’ve watched it, and the main thing I’d say is that it’s utterly predictable in its desire to shock.

It’s like that one person at a party drinking too much and doing the splits when everyone else is trying to have a civilised conversation: entertaining for about five minutes, then just rather boring.