When the BBC does actually film a classic - 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens, as it did last Christmas - you expect it to be a rather special costume drama.The write up (see url) in The Telegraph found other points of criticism.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9050451/BBCs-Great-Expectations-left-the-humour-out-says-writer-Andrew-Davies.html