A Room With A View

A Room With A View
Sunday 4 November 2007 9:00pm - 11:00pm on ITV1.

Timothy (Death Defying Acts, Mysterious Creatures) and Rafe (Hot Fuzz, The Chatterley Affair) play Mr Emerson and his son George in an adaptation by Andrew Davies' (Bleak House, The Line of Beauty) of Forster’s classic social comedy for IWC Media, part of the RDF Media Group.

Elaine Cassidy (Ghost Squad, Fingersmith) is Lucy Honeychurch, Laurence Fox (Lewis, Becoming Jane) is Cecil Vyse, Sophie Thompson (EastEnders, A Harlot’s Progress) is Charlotte Bartlett, Sinead Cusack (The Tiger’s Tail, Home Again) is Miss Lavish, Timothy West (Bleak House, London) is Mr Eager and Mark Williams (Stardust, Harry Potter) is the Reverend Beebe.

Andrew Davies was inspired to create a new layer of narrative in his adaptation of A Room With A View after discovering EM Forster’s rethinking of his story.

“Forster himself wrote a little postscript in 1958, 50 years after writing the book, imagining what might have happened to the characters. He imagined George Emerson visiting Florence after the Second World War, looking for the Bertolini boarding house. That got me thinking and, since it's so much Lucy's story, I imagined Lucy revisiting Florence after the First World War, to recapture her happiest memories. So the whole thing becomes Lucy's memory of that crucial point in her life and it also gives us the opportunity to add a new ending, after the ending in the book.”