{"id":30245,"date":"2023-02-16T17:10:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T16:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1786959"},"modified":"2023-02-17T07:56:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T06:56:10","slug":"olivia-colman-chills-in-trailer-for-steven-knights-great-expectations","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/olivia-colman-chills-in-trailer-for-steven-knights-great-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Colman chills in trailer for Steven Knight\u2019s Great Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> The Dickens tale as you&#8217;ve never seen it before. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By David Craig\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Thursday, 16 February 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>Steven Knight is back with another dark and gritty Charles Dickens adaptation in <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/great-expectations-olivia-colman-cast-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Great Expectations<\/a>, with the full trailer showing Olivia Colman in one of her toughest roles to date.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the classic novel of the same name, the drama follows the life of orphan boy Pip (Fionn Whitehead), who dreams of a better life where he can be with the cold-hearted Estella (Shalom Brune-Franklin).<\/p>\n<p>Colman plays Miss Havisham, the tragic figure who was once abandoned at the altar by the man she was due to marry, and whose sanity has taken a severe knock in the years since.<\/p> <p>As described in the book, Miss Havisham wears a wedding dress at all times, with Colman and Knight\u2019s incarnation of the character being perhaps the most striking ever depicted on screen.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer below gives us a taste of what\u2019s in store. Watch now:<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"&quot;Great\" expectations=\"\" extended=\"\" trailer=\"\" bbc=\"\" width=\"&quot;200&quot;\" height=\"&quot;113&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dX4L07C07zg?feature=oembed&quot;\" frameborder=\"&quot;0&quot;\" allow=\"&quot;accelerometer;\" autoplay=\"\" clipboard-write=\"\" encrypted-media=\"\" gyroscope=\"\" picture-in-picture=\"\" web-share=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>\n<p>This is the second Dickens adaptation to come from Knight, best known as the creator of <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/peaky-blinders-season-7-release-cancelled-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Peaky Blinders<\/a>, following on from his bold reimagining of A Christmas Carol in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Colman, Whitehead and Brune-Franklin, the ensemble cast also includes Ashley Thomas (<a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/the-ipcress-file-season-2-release-date-itv\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">The Ipcress File<\/a>), Johnny Harris (<a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/without-sin-itv-review\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Without Sin<\/a>), Hayley Squires (<a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/essex-serpent-apple-tv-review\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">The Essex Serpent<\/a>), Owen McDonnell (Killing Eve), Trystan Gravelle (<a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/fantasy\/lord-rings-power-season-2-release-date-prime-video\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">The Rings of Power<\/a>) and Matt Berry (<a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/comedy\/what-we-do-in-shadows-how-to-watch-uk\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">What We Do in the Shadows<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The BBC is yet to announce a confirmed air date for the much-anticipated limited series, although notably it is scheduled to premiere in late March in the United States via producing partner FX.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/great-expectations-images-olivia-colman-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Olivia Colman is Miss Havisham in first look at Great Expectations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/great-expectations-olivia-colman-teaser-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Olivia Colman stars in new look at Great Expectations from Steven Knight<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Great Expectations is coming soon to BBC One and iPlayer. 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For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/audio\/podcasts\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener noopener noreferrer\" noreferrer=\"\" data-auth=\"&quot;NotApplicable&quot;\" data-safelink=\"&quot;true&quot;\" data-linkindex=\"&quot;1&quot;\"><b>Radio Times View From My Sofa podcast<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Dickens tale as you&#8217;ve never seen it before. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":30246,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/02\/olivia-colman-chills-in-trailer-for-steven-knights-great-expectations.jpg",1740,1160,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/02\/olivia-colman-chills-in-trailer-for-steven-knights-great-expectations-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/02\/olivia-colman-chills-in-trailer-for-steven-knights-great-expectations-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/02\/olivia-colman-chills-in-trailer-for-steven-knights-great-expectations-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/02\/olivia-colman-chills-in-trailer-for-steven-knights-great-expectations-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/02\/olivia-colman-chills-in-trailer-for-steven-knights-great-expectations-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/02\/olivia-colman-chills-in-trailer-for-steven-knights-great-expectations.jpg",1740,1160,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The Dickens tale as you've never seen it before.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/30245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}