Benedict Cumberbatch: New flagship 5-part saga = Parade's End (Radio Times)

Jack Seale
 12:00 AM, 18 February 2012

First look: Benedict Cumberbatch in Parade’s End Rebecca Hall co-stars in BBC2 drama written by Tom Stoppard

Here’s the first photograph of what should be one of 2012’s classiest drama series: Parade’s End, written by Tom Stoppard and starring Benedict Cumberbatch. It’s a prestige production with high literary pedigree – so anyone looking at this photo and debating how hot or not Cumberbatch looks with his blond side parting and three-piece suit should be thoroughly ashamed.

Certainly this will not happen in the RadioTimes.com office. The flagship five-part saga, a dramatisation of novels written in the 1920s by Ford Madox Ford, follows English aristocrat Christopher Tietjens (Cumberbatch) and his beautiful wife Sylvia (Rebecca Hall, also pictured) from the decline of the Edwardian era to the end of the First World War.

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