How you reacted to The Scandalous Lady W (17 August) will have depended on how you feel about Natalie Dormer. Last seen on terrestrial TV as Anne Boleyn in The Tudors, and as a not dissimilar princess in Game of Thrones on Sky Atlantic, she appeared in almost every frame of this passionate period drama. I am not convinced by her. She has her petulant face, and her steely face, and her adoring face, and her surprised face. But I never get much sense of anything going on behind that. She does, however, look magnificent when seen with an extravagant hairdo and a glorious frock, planted in a gorgeous eighteenth-century interior. This was a beautifully designed production. It also held the attention as a drama, apparently based on fact. Dormer played an indomitable woman who was wronged by her