Quite by accident I recently stumbled across the first episode of PBS's Bleak House. I've been watching it ever since... Sort of a David Lynch does Victorean London series. Very cool and well done. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/bleakhouse/
I'm hooked too. Took me awhile to figure out that X-files Gillian Anderson was in it. Great character names as you would expect from Dickens- Tulkinghorn, Guppy, Snagsby, Skimpole, Boythorn...
Oh man, I had to read that for Gothic Novel class in college. 900 pages in and Dickens was still introducing new characters and subplots. Holy damn Chuck, pick a story and tell it!
