Though it’s not due to air until next month, Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, DH Lawrence’s infamous novel, is already causing a stir, with media organisations arguing among themselves over whether it contains too much sex and bad language – or too little.
Handily, the BBC has now released the first trailer for the one-off drama, which gives us a few more clues as to where on the art/smut divide Mercurio’s work sits. Certainly there’s a decent helping of raunch here – Game Of Thrones star Richard Madden looking smouldering and Poldark-y as Oliver Mellors, soft-focus closeups of Constance Chatterley’s (Holliday Grainger) bedroom activities – but equally, there’s enough period melodrama here to suggest that it will hold its own should it go up against Downton in the Sunday-night prestige-drama slot.
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover airs this September on BBC1
