Wuthering Heights 2009 will be broadcast in the UK before Christmas

According to The Mirror, ITV will broadcast their new Wuthering Heights despite their financial problems:

Good news for the stars of ITV's super-lavish production of Wuthering Heights - it's finally going to be shown!
Poor Sarah Lancashire - who plays housekeeper Nelly Dean - had feared that it would be on the scrapheap because ITV couldn't afford to air it.
But I'm assured the £3million drama will hit screens before Christmas (a year later than planned, but hey ho).
Sarah, who stars alongside Tom Hardy's Heathcliff and This Life's Andrew Lincoln as Edgar Linton, is rather pleased with the drama, which Americans got to see in January. She sighed: "It is beautiful. It is an epic piece, in an epic setting, but with epic problems.
"It is a beautifully crafted piece - I suppose it will be shown when ITV can afford to put it out."
The station only pays for a production in full when it hits the screen - so although the two-part show is finished, it was looking too costly to actually screen on the telly.
Bosses have to slash budgets by a whopping £135m over the next two years - so this will be ITV's last costume drama. Make the most of it! (Nicola Methven)

It's a strange situation when it seems that not showing an already-made, expensive production could be better money-wise than actually showing it. We don't really get it, but we are really happy that - for the time being, at least - they have decided to go ahead.

Chris Bowen, the Australian federal Assistant Treasurer, is duly appalled to have heard 'a prominent federal politician recently boast[ing] he hadn't read a fiction book since he left school'. Towards the end of his article for the Brisbane Times he writes,

Of course, everyone will have their own list. Whether it's Charlotte Bronte, Ernest Hemingway, Helen Garner or Dan Brown, time spent reading a novel is not time wasted.

We are seriously considering printing that out and framing it. Are we allowed to clap too?

The Irish Independent carries an article on Helg Sgarbi who 'has just been jailed for blackmailing Germany's richest heiress after they had an affair'. He is described as follows:

Helg Sgarbi (41) cuts an unremarkable figure. Thin, bespectacled, square-jawed and impeccably dressed, he's certainly no Heathcliff. (Celine Naughton)

Alright then.

The blog In the Shadow of Mt. TBR discusses Wuthering Heights.

Categories: Movies-DVD-TV, Wuthering Heights