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Tuesday, March 20. 2007 New Austen Adaptations on PBS in NovemberPosted by Manda in AnglophileComment (1) | Trackbacks (0) How about this for some awesome news: new feature-length productions of Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park and Persuasion are being prepared for a "Jane Austen Festival" on Masterpiece Theatre this November. As if that weren't enough, there will also be a new miniseries of Sense and Sensibility shown at the same time! I'm most excited about Northanger Abbey. The only previous version of it is pretty darn bad, not even the presence of faves Peter Firth (with seriously scary hair) and Robert Hardy could make it more palatable. Trackbacks
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These were just on here (or possibly in the midst of being shown, I'm not sure) as "the Jane Austen collection" on my most-hated UK channel ITV lol ... so I didn't watch for that reason but I've never been that big on Austen anyway - still, I know enough to know that Billie Piper is hideously cast as Fanny Price - though I still remember my essay on her in Mansfield Park being called "a perverse approach to literature" lol so what do I know. Anyway, the guys on Newsnight Review thought the same but said the other two adaptations were pretty great, and the clips looked good to me.
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