July 2018 Acorn TV Calendar

Monday, July 16th

ANGLO SAXON ATTITUDES

"British drama at its spectacular best" - The Globe and Mail

A British satirical classic adapted for the screen by master storyteller, Emmy and BAFTA award-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies (House of Cards, Little Dorrit, Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jones's Diary). This mid-1990s miniseries won the BAFTA award for 'Best Drama Serial' and stars Richard Johnson (The Camomile Lawn) and Tara Fitzgerald (Game of Thrones, C.B. Strike, Waking the Dead) and features Daniel Craig (Casino Royale), Douglas Hodge (Decline and Fall, Penny Dreadful), Elizabeth Spriggs (Sense and Sensibility), and, in one scene, Kate Winslet (Titanic) in one of her first screen roles. Featuring acclaimed novelist Angus Wilson's colorful characters and grim, pitiless humor, the series follows Gerald Middleton (Johnson), a disillusioned 60-year-old historian. A darkly comic, take-no-prisoners satire, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes skewers British social and academic hypocrisy to the very core. (1992, 3 Feature-length EPS)