BBC airs period adaptation of 'The War of the Worlds'

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Actor Rafe Spall at a 2013 event
Rafe Spall, who starred in the BBC's 2019 The War of the Worlds Sean Reynolds from Liverpool, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The BBC began a three-part adaptation of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, written by Peter Harness and set in Edwardian England in 1905, with Rafe Spall, Eleanor Tomlinson and Robert Carlyle. Reviews were mixed.

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  1. PressThe War of the Worlds review: A lavish adaptation let down by its need to be socially relevant (opens in a new tab)The Independent (Ed Cumming), via Yahoo UK / 2019-11-17
  2. OtherThe War of the Worlds (2019) review (opens in a new tab)Television Heaven (Daniel Tessier) / 2020-01-18

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