Episode 2 (The Casual Vacancy) praised the cast, in particular Abigail Lawrie, Rory Kinnear and Rufus Jones Ceri Radford of "The Telegraph" gave the episode 4 out of 5 stars, despite some reservations about the digressions, saying: Episode 2 (The Casual Vacancy) "Episode 2" is the second episode of the British miniseries "The Casual Vacancy" based on the novel of the same title by J. K. Rowling. The parish council election approaches and Pagford is on tenterhooks awaiting the next post from 'the Ghost of Barry Fairbrother'. Who is the Ghost, and what will they say? Is anyone in the village safe from humiliation? As
BBC television drama Who". The larger English regions also produce drama productions of their own, with BBC Birmingham providing the detective drama "Dalziel and Pascoe", daytime soap opera "Doctors" and anthology series "The Afternoon Play" for national consumption, for example. From 1999 until 2006, the BBC also had a new in-house drama division, BBC Fictionlab, which specialised in producing dramas for the corporation's digital stations, particularly BBC Four. Notable Fictionlab productions for BBC Four included "The Alan Clark Diaries" (2003), a live re-make of "The Quatermass Experiment" (2005) and the biopic "Kenneth Tynan - In Praise of Hardcore" (2005). Several of these have