| Director: | Nicholas Renton |
| Starring: | Paloma Baeza Nathaniel Parker Jonathan Firth Nigel Terry |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Num Episodes: | 4 |
| Producer: | Hilary Bevan Jones |
| Runtime: | 56 minutes |
| Company: | Granada Television |
| Network: | ITV |
Far from the Madding Crowd is a 1998 drama television film adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1874 novel of the same name.
Will Joyner of The New York Times wrote a positive review of the adaptation: "Strangely, and to its great credit, this new Far From the Madding Crowd, which was produced by Granada Television in Britain and WGBH-TV in Boston, does not simply survive the viewer's tendency to compare and second-guess; it thrives upon it. At almost every turn of the deliciously gradual tale of romantic chaos, the new version is just as visually striking as the 1967 film -- some of the locations are virtually identical -- and is more naturally rendered dramatically, with a rough language truer to Hardy's blend of poetry and rural speech."[1]