Roots Roots (Lionsgate Home Video-2016) In 1976, the original Roots miniseries was a defining cultural event.  It was not the first of the miniseries – or “novels for television,” as they dubbed the form at the time.  A 1974 version of Leon Uris’ QB VII was the first miniseries to be filmed by the American networks. Irwin Shaw’s Rich Man, Poor Man was the first miniseries to really capture the imagination of the public, becoming very popular and critically acclaimed. However

Dough DOUGH (2015) Starring Jonathan Pryce, Jerome Holder, Ian Hart, Philip Davis, Pauline Collins, Natasha Gordon, Malachi Kirby, Daniel Caltagirone, Andrew Ellis, Matt Devere, Daniel Ben Zenou, Joel Beckett, Paul Blackwell, Ben Bishop, John Voce, Deborah Sheridan-Taylor and Melanie Freeman. Screenplay by Yehuda Jez Freedman and Jonathan Benson. Directed by John Goldschmidt. Distributed by Menemsha Films.  94 minutes.  Not Rated. The poster for Dough certainly doesn’t do the