Grave Concerns

Waking the Dead airs on Nine tonight at 8.30. See preview, page 10. The Brits invented crime drama about unsolved cold cases ... the Americans made it popular. Michael Idato reports.

What The #?*!

Not-so-Great GatsbyWritten by Francis Ford Coppola, the 1974 adaptation of The Great Gatsby was supposed to be an unqualified triumph. Instead, screenwriter William Goldman calls it "one of the most overhyped disasters of the '70s". Goldman says director Jack Clayton, like most Brits, is obsessed by class, and thus decided that Gatsby's parties were "shabby and tacky, given by a man of no elevation and taste.