Sita Williams attached herself to the project in late 1999 and by the start of 2000 was talking to writers and working on the adaptations. The initial plan was for two series, the first an adaptation of The Forsyte Saga and the second continuing with A Modern Comedy. Granada were thinking big from the outset of the project – this was clearly something that couldn't be dashed off as a two-parter. The idea came initially from David Liddiment, ITV's director of channels, who seized on the Forsyte novels not only as a great achievement in English literature, but also for their iconic status in British television. The makers of the 2002 version felt that any new production would be compared with the 1967 version, which set the standards for period drama for the next 25 years. The author Malcolm Bradbury wrote that the prospect of the new series "brings a tear to the eye and a smile to the lips" a tear because time had passed the culturally-significant original by, but smile because investment in a classic project is good. Additional funding was provided by American PBS station WGBH, as the 1967 BBC version had been a success on PBS in the early 1970s. It was based on the books of John Galsworthy's trilogy The Forsyte Saga, which were adapted by Granada Television for the ITV network in 2002 (Series I) and 2003 (Series II).
The Forsyte Saga is a British drama television serial that chronicles the lives of three generations of an upper-middle-class family from the 1870s to 1920s. The class is criticized on account of its possessiveness, but there is also nostalgia because Galsworthy, as a man born into the class, could also appreciate its virtues.Croxteth Hall, Croxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK In these novels, John Galsworthy documented a departed way of life, that of the affluent middle class that ruled England before the 1914 war. Eventually, the Forsyte family begins to disintegrate when Timothy Forsyte, the last of the old generation, dies at the age of 100. The saga begins with Soames Forsyte, a successful solicitor who buys land at Robin Hill on which to build a house for his wife Irene and future family. The Forsyte Saga is a sequence of novels comprising The Man of Property (1906), In Chancery (1920), and To Let (1921) with two interludes, "Indian Summer of a Forsyte" (1918) and "Awakening", published together in 1922. Galsworthy's masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women. The three novels that make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family through three generations, beginning in Victorian London during the 1880s and ending in the early 1920s.
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