“Wuthering Heights” (9 p.m., PBS): The novel inspiring this new film was blasted by a

“Wuthering Heights” (9 p.m., PBS): The novel inspiring this new film was blasted by a certain critic as “one of the most repellant books we ever read.”

That got your attention? Well, get ready for the latest screen version of “Wuthering Heights,” Emily Bronte’s 1847 masterpiece that scandalized its contemporary audience and has haunted readers ever since.

This time, PBS’ “Masterpiece Classic” is recounting the turbulent tale of love and revenge as a two-part adaptation airing tonight and Jan. 25, both nights at 9 p.m.

Set on the Yorkshire moors in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the saga spans two generations. It tells of Heathcliff, the mysterious gypsy adopted as a boy by the Earnshaw family of Wuthering Heights (and we’re only going to say this once: It’s pronounced wuthering, not weathering). He rises out of his servile position to inflict his punishing will on the Earnshaws as well as the neighboring Linton family, into which his precious stepsister Catherine, his soul mate since childhood, marries.

Thanks to Heathcliff, “Wuthering Heights” demonstrates that love doesn’t always make the world go ’round; sometimes, it wrecks it.

British heartthrob Tom Hardy plays Heathcliff. Comely newcomer Charlotte Riley is stepsister Catherine Earnshaw (aka Cathy), who as a girl accepts the lad into her home and heart, then later betrays him.

Also on board are Burn Gorman, Andrew Lincoln and Rosalind Halstead.

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