Anne Frank TV drama heads to BBC

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I'm a bit nervous about this to be honest. We have very little information about this other than who is going to play the Frank family.
It says it is going to be based on 'The Diary of Anne Frank' and so if this means it is going to be based on the pubished diary, rather than actual accounts of the period and biographies, I'm a bit concerned that is isn't going to be all that factual and will be more like the 1959 film and the play, which use the psudonyms for Mr and Mrs van Pels, Mr Pfeffer and Miep, Jan, Bep, Mr Kugler and Mr Kleiman.
I'm not sure about Iain Glen playing Otto, from the pictures I have seen, there isn't much of a likeness there, compared to say Ben Kingsley or the man who played Otto in the Hollywood film.
Tamsin Grieg however does look more like Edith I think, but only slightly, than Tatiana Blancher does.
I think Felicity Jones, who is going to be playing Margot is far too pretty for the part (I'm not saying Margot was ugly though ;) ). Maybe make up and costume will make her look more like Margot.
I've only seen one picture of Ellie Kendrick who is going to play Anne, and that was from a side view. From it she does remind me of Hannah Taylor Gordon in a way, so hopefully she will look more like Anne than Millie Perkins did at least.
As its in 5 parts (apparently) I hope they are going to explore more of Anne's life than her time in hiding, but because it says it will be based on the diary, I doubt it.

By the way, the BBC is one of the 3 main TV channels and the first one set up in the UK. For some reason, even though you're from the USA and have a completely different set of TV channels, I thought people in the USA at least would have heard of the BBC! No offence but I thought you would have known what the BBC was seen as the link you gave came from its website!