Television

February, 1982

Among the major events of the new year in television will be Brideshead Revisited, a meticulous adaptation by John Mortimer of Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel, already a huge success at home in England. Beginning January 18 as part of the PBS "Great Performances" showcase, Brideshead is a sumptuous II-week epic, almost a page-by-page playback of Waugh's book about an aristocratic Catholic family over a time span of two decades. Jeremy Irons (the brilliant actor who nearly stole The French Li...