See Mr. Darcy save the UK
American readers of AustenBlog can tune into A&E for the new season of MI-5, the spy drama starring Matthew MacFadyen. Mr. MacFadyen also portrays Mr. Darcy in the upcoming PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (she added unnecessarily.) A&E aired the premier of the ten episode Season Three last night. Episode two will air Saturday, January 15 at 1:00 pm ET.
MI-5, known as Spooks in the UK, is a quite entertaining spy drama set against the backdrop of the British domestic spy agency. In it Mr. MacFadyen plays spy Tom Quinn, a noble but increasingly tortured soul. Tom is serially unlucky in love, so I’m quite happy that Mr. MacFadyen finally gets the girl, albeit in a different century.
In an interesting little coincidence, in PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Mr. Bennet is played by Donald Sutherland, whose son Kiefer Sutherland plays spy Jack Bauer, a noble but increasingly tortured soul, serially unlucky in love. American viewers can tune into Fox tonight at 8:00 pm ET for the first two hours of Jack’s latest catastrophe-filled day.
