Video Interview with Dickensian’s Tony Jordan

NEW YORK: Tony Jordan, creator and writer of the period drama Dickensian, tells TV Drama how he went about reimagining the world of Dickens and the characters that inhabit it.

Set within the fictional realms of Charles Dickens’s classic novels, the drama Dickensian brings together some of the most iconic characters in literary history. The 20-part series, produced by Red Planet Pictures for BBC One and sold by BBC Worldwide, follows as these characters’ lives intertwine against the backdrop of 19th-century London.

Tony Jordan, the founder of Red Planet who spent many years as the lead writer and series consultant for EastEnders, is behind the period piece.