TY - ADVS AU - Stafford-Clark,Nigel AU - Davies,Andrew AU - Chadwick,Justin AU - White,Susanna AU - Anderson, Gillian, AU - Armstrong,Alun AU - Brooks,Charlie AU - Clarke,Warren AU - Collins,Pauline AU - Dance,Charles AU - Davis,Philip AU - Gorman,Burn AU - Harrington,Richard AU - Kelly,Matthew AU - Kennedy,Patrick AU - Lawson,Denis AU - Lynch,John AU - Maxwell Martin,Anna AU - McGowan,Alistair AU - Mulligan,Carey AU - Parker,Nathaniel AU - Press,Natalie AU - Reid,Anne AU - Richardson,Ian AU - Speer,Hugo AU - Tarbuck,Liza AU - Vegas,Johnny AU - West,Timothy AU - Georgeson,Tom AU - Baur,Lilo AU - Smiley,Michael AU - Eden,Harry AU - Dickens,Charles ED - British Broadcasting Corporation. ED - WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.) ED - Deep Indigo Productions. ED - BBC Video (Firm) ED - BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc. ED - Warner Home Video (Firm) TI - Bleak House SN - 1419880861 PY - 2009///] CY - [United States], Burbank, CA PB - BBC Video, 2 Entertain, Distributed by Warner Home Video KW - Dickens, Charles, KW - Orphans KW - England KW - Drama KW - Inheritance and succession KW - Actions and defenses KW - Procedure (Law) KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Fiction television programs KW - lcgft KW - Television mini-series KW - Television adaptations KW - Television melodramas KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Based on the novel by Charles Dickens; Special features: Interviews with Gillian Anderson, Denis Lawson and Charles Dance; commentaries with writer Andrew Davies, producer Nigel Stafford-Clark and directors Justin Chadwick and Susanna White; photo gallery; Originally broadcast on BBC television in 2005; [Disc 1] Episodes 1 -- 5 -- Gillian Anderson interview. [Disc 2] Episodes 6-10 -- Denis Lawson interview. [Disc 3] Episodes 11-15 -- Charles Dance interview; Ep. 1-7, 9 directed by Justin Chadwick; ep. 8, 10-15 directed by Susannah White; Gillian Anderson, Alun Armstrong, Charlie Brooks, Warren Clarke, Pauline Collins, Charles Dance, Phil Davis, Burn Gorman, Richard Harrington, Matthew Kelly, Patrick Kennedy, Denis Lawson, John Lynch, Anna Maxwell Martin, Alistair McGowan, Carey Mulligan, Nathaniel Parker, Natalie Press, Anne Reid, Ian Richardson, Hugo Speer, Liza Tarbuck, Johnny Vegas, Timothy West, Tom Georgeson, Lilo Baur, Katie Angelou, Loo Brealey, Michael Smiley, Emma Williams, Harry Eden N2 - Two innocent young orphans are the potential heirs to a fortune. Their fates are snarled in a monumental legal battle known as Jarndyce and Jarndyce. Another orphan, Esther Summerson, whose mysterious parentage proves to be intertwined with the fate of the Jarndyce wards and the aloof Lady Dedlock. Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. The icily beautiful Esther's background also comes to light after the murder of a strange man. Twines through the legal system to heartbreaking domestic drama to a murder investigation to near-Gothic horror ER -