The BBC's adaptation of Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit has been nominated for the award for long-form television.

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Not because of Charles Dickens adaptations (Little Dorrit notwithstanding) but because a generation ago, viewers were eager to sample, and maybe even embrace, the new stuff the networks were turning out.

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