The Daily Telegraph - Saturday - Review
THE NAME OF THE ROSE
BBC Two, 9.00pm
Three decades after the decent Hollywood adaptation starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater comes a more faithful eight-part version of Umberto Eco’s classic murder mystery-cumtheological treatise. John Turturro stars as the 14th-century monk William of Baskerville, dispatched with his young apprentice (Damian Hardung) to investigate a series of deaths at an abbey.