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Television

Doctor Thorne is pleasantly undemanding viewing

Plus: E4’s The Aliens provides the opposite: a messy-to-the-point-of-bonkers sci-fi with undeniable oomph

12 March 2016

9:00 AM

12 March 2016

9:00 AM

Every now and then, a costume drama comes along that’s so daringly unconventional as to make us re-examine our whole idea of what the form can achieve. ITV’s Doctor Thorne, though, isn’t one of them. Instead, Julian Fellowes’s adaptation of Anthony Trollope observes the usual rules with almost pathological fidelity.

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