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Melissa McCarthy is masterful in the captivating account - based on a true story - of a down-and-out writer who resorts to lies, deceit and outright crime to get back on top.

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Featuring Charles Dickens' most iconic characters as their paths cross in Victorian London. Dickensian is a world of love, romance and intrigue with secrets lurking round every corner and a murder story at its heart.

Discover a world where Miss Havisham may still find love, Scrooge can meet Fagin and Jacob Marley's murderer is being hunted down by Inspector Bucket, one of fiction's first detectives. You don't have to know Dickens to love these characters and the action packed stories they feature in. With an all-star cast including Stephen Rea, Pauline Collins, Caroline Quentin, Omid Djalili, Peter Firth and Tuppence Middleton, "Dickensian" is period drama as we've never seen it before…