Television review: 'The Pillars of the Earth'

Ken Follett's novel has been amended for the miniseries on Starz. There is more melodrama, different conclusions and a busy, overstuffed feeling to it. Starz, which has found success with its historical sword-and-sauciness series "Spartacus," updates the mix a millennium or so and raises the tone a bit with "The Pillars of the Earth," an eight-hour adaptation of Ken Follett's 1989 thousand-page novel of medieval England. Set mos...

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