Les Misérables is a sprawling three-hour musical epic based on a sprawling 1,100-page novel about 19th-century France. There’s a revolution, but it’s not the French Revolution.

Pay your damn rent already. Les Misérables premiered in English in London’s West End in 1985, and on Broadway in 1987. Hooper has wisely gone a more age-appropriate direction with the casting.

Cast members in a new production of the musical Les Miserables led by Mark Uhre (centre right) who plays “Enjolras” and Melissa O’Neil (centre left) who plays “Eponine.” The production ...

Les Misérables (Sunday, PBS, 9 p.m. on Masterpiece) is dragon-free drama, a heroic poem of a story about the have-nots and, let it be noted, also song-free.