As a technical experiment in live production, it's not terrible, but as an hour and a half of television it's a dull, bloated adaptation with a dodgy script and often shaky acting. Tennant and Varma are OK, but there's nothing here to warrant a watch.

Even David Tennant wasn't enough to save this from being awful and he's the only redeeming feature. For some reason this was broadcast live but it wouldn't have been good anyway.