Gormenghast

Created by Mervyn Peake, Malcolm McKay

On BBC Two

A baroque, darkly comic miniseries steeped in gothic atmosphere and surreal ceremony, where an ambitious schemer navigates a decaying castle ruled by dusty ritual.

At the Castle of Gormenghast, the Groan family has ruled with dusty ceremony for more than seventy generations. A clever and ambitious new kitchen boy, Steerpike, begins to insinuate himself into the affections of Lady Fuchsia Groan and to murder his way to power.