With Shakespeare it is not the plot nor the characters not the wording that is changed, it is simply the costume and the surroundings.

I agree with Fr Bill - it is the kidnapping of unwilling characters. Whilst it is in the nature of things that adaptations of novels can have certain changes, it is another when the connection is somewhat more tenuous and the names seem out of context with their new surroundings and what actually happens. The cited newsletter refers to episodes in 2011 and was nearly 12 months late from when the episode(s) it refers to were broadcast. The episode to which I have taken such great exception (The Hounds of Baskerville) was broadcast only this January. They massacred the title and the massacre only got worse with the plot.