TV presenter Nick Knowles has let rip at the BBC drama Great Expectations and insisted it resembles The Only Way is Essex more than a Charles Dickens story.
Nick, 60, hit out at the BBC show after it aired its latest episode and described it as "unnecessarily salacious".
The programme made its debut last week and has so far been dividing viewer opinion.
However, it is clear that Nick is certainly not a fan of the show as he pulled it apart across a number of tweets.
The DIY SOS star said: "Can anyone explain to me why BBC production of Great Expectations has recast uncle Pumblechook as a masochist & Mrs Joe as a dominatrix running a torture service?
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"Beautifully shot & directed drama but it’s like the writers of TOWIE version of Dickens. Feels unnecessarily salacious."
The star did not stop there as he went onto slam the 'sexed up' show and called it a 'car crash'.
Making his view clear, Nick added online: "I loved Taboo and Peaky Blinders so I’m baffled why Great Expectations is such salacious tripe.
"Why do we have to sex up all period dramas now? I’m watching it into episode 2 like a slow moving car crash."
Nick continued to add blow after blow as he insisted he had given up on the programme after it failed to live up to its name.
He said in a separate tweet: "That’s it - got as far as the Miss Havisham and Estella opium crack den scene and called it a day.
"Sadly Great Expectations failed to live up to its name Perhaps Feeble Liberties might be a better name for this adaptation."
It comes as viewers of the show slammed the X-rated scenes that were not a part of the original novel.
BBC's Dickens adaptation was blasted for its spanking scene as a naked Mr Pumblechook (played by Matt Berry) was whipped by housewife-turned-dominatrix Mrs Gargery (played by Hayley Squires.)
This comes after screenwriter Steven Knight, famed for Peaky Blinders, has sexed up the tale in a nod to topics he feels the author hinted at but couldn't explore in 19th century Britain.
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In the scene, Mrs Gargery yelled: "Come upstairs now" as she removed her wedding ring, grabbed a whip and asked: "Are you ready?"
"You know what's coming don't you? Turn around," she said before proceeding to strike a naked Matt Berry ten times as he was bent over her bed.
Steven said he tried to "imagine if Dickens was writing the story now and had the freedom to go to those darker places' and asked: 'What would he do?'"
