'Hamlet' with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart, from 2009.

[Steve H]

I'm half-way through watching this on Iplayer, and am now having a break before resuming (it's three hours long). It's modern-dress, and has Tennant as the gloomy Dane and Stewart as both the ghost and Claudius. Excellent and recommended, although annoyingly they omitted my favourite three lines from the ghost's first speech:
"... thy knotted and combined locks to part
And each particular hair to stand an end
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00pk71s/hamlet

[Nearly Sane]

It is good. Saw it in the theatre. And I'm old enough to remember watching the BBC adaptation in 1980 with Patrick Stewart as Claudius again to Derek Jacobi's Hamlet. So that Pucard has played Claudius both to the Doctor's and the Master's Hamlets

[jeremyp]

It is good. Saw it in the theatre. And I'm old enough to remember watching the BBC adaptation in 1980 with Patrick Stewart as Claudius again to Derek Jacobi's Hamlet. So that Pucard has played Claudius both to the Doctor's and the Master's Hamlets

I didn't realise that Derek Jacobi had played the Master in Doctor Who.

More impressively, Picard has played Claudius to Claudius.

[Nearly Sane]

I didn't realise that Derek Jacobi had played the Master in Doctor Who.

More impressively, Picard has played Claudius to Claudius.

And was Sejanus in I, Claudius

[Steve H]

I didn't realise that Derek Jacobi had played the Master in Doctor Who.

Yes - in an episode called 'Utopia', set (rather ridiculously) trillions of years in the future, near the death of the universe, when we were expected to believe that humans were still around.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b007qltt/doctor-who-series-3-11-utopia

[Nearly Sane]

Yes - in an episode called 'Utopia', set (rather ridiculously) trillions of years in the future, near the death of the universe, when we were expected to believe that humans were still around.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b007qltt/doctor-who-series-3-11-utopia

Much as I love Doctor Who (most of the time), 'rather ridiculously' wouldn't in itself narrow things down much.

[Steve H]

Much as I love Doctor Who (most of the time), 'rather ridiculously' wouldn't in itself narrow things down much.

Very true. It's not really science fiction; it's fairy tales with a thin veneer of pseudo-science. I still love it, though.

[SqueakyVoice]

Dr Who, now watching on ITVX, the first series was written  by Terry Nation. I have a vague memory that I read a load of his books at school.