'Audiences expect something a little steamy' – Why TV adaptations add S&M and sex scenes to the classics

It’s fair to say the sight of a naked Mr Pumblechook being whipped on the bottom by housewife-turned-dominatrix Mrs Joe Gargery had some viewers of the new BBC adaptation of Great Expectations reaching for the smelling salts.

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