Oh dear. The A&E version... tsk tsk tsk. I had such hopes. In Australia, I even caught the second installment. It didn't leave me hopeful at all for the third, so I didn't bother.

I actually watched that when it was first on TV because I was in a Pimpernel craze. I've seen the musical three times--over a long enough period to note where they changed the order of songs (and who was singing them, character-wise), the staging, the jokes even. I loved it. I still love it.

I only just IMDB'd Jamie Bamber a short while ago and realized he was in it. "Dewhurst...Dewhurst? That guy who GOT SHOT EVEN THOUGH THAT NEVER HAPPENED IN THE STORY WTF?" I was angrier with them killing off a character who wasn't dead in book or musical or movie before this than I did over it being Jamie (like you said, he should sorta be used to getting shot by now).

Then I remembered to myself "Wait...wasn't Lord Dewhurst the one that the French tarts stripped down and pleasured all night that led to that really funny line the next morning at the tailor?"

Tailor: "Lord Dewhurst, are you unwell?"
Percy: "Poor fellow was up most of the night."
Tailor: "Couldn't sleep?"
Percy: "I don't think they let him."

And, now I know who Jamie is, I may have to find my tape at home :)