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All's Fair In Love & War

TV & Satellite Week

September 1, 2018

Olivia Cooke and Tom Bateman star in ITV's utterly modern version of Vanity Fair.

- Emma Bullimore, Sean Marland

NEW DRAMA

Vanity Fair

Sunday, monday, ITV HD, 9pm

Billed by director James Strong as ‘a period drama for people who hate period drama’, ITV’s new seven-part adaptation of Vanity Fair boasts bursts of modern pop music, Fleabag-style breaking of the fourth wall, and a very modern heroine indeed.

William Makepeace Thackeray’s 19th-century novel features one of the most audacious women in literature, the irrepressible Becky Sharp (Olivia Cooke), who we follow as she sets out into the world looking to make her fortune.

‘Becky’s completely her own woman and everything is on her terms,’ says rising star Cooke, who also starred in Steven Spielberg’s

This story is from the September 1, 2018 edition of TV & Satellite Week.

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