“Miss Austen Regrets”
Well, this sounds interesting. Geetika Lizardi, the playwright for the musical JANE, about which we blogged some time ago, wrote to tell us that cast members of the play have told her that a television drama series or serial titled MISS AUSTEN REGRETS is currently being cast in the U.K. We tried Googling it but found only a review of David Nokes’ Austen biography from 1997. If anyone has any news about this, do let us know!
Geetika also passed along the following lovely tidbit:
I’ve also heard from a costume maker that we’re using for our play that the TV drama is going to be a series/serial of some sort.
She’s making an awful lot of regency costumes these days and speculates that the demand for that period (among audiences) is only going to increase.
It’s difficult not to get excited, isn’t it? 
June 13th, 2006 at 9:02 am
speculates that the demand for that period (among audiences) is only going to increase.
Yay!!
June 13th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
[...] We posted yesterday about MISS AUSTEN REGRETS, a drama serial which is currently casting. Geetika asked one of her cast members about it, who passed on that it is to be produced by BBC Drama (huzzah!) and is described in the casting call as “Drama looking at the life of Jane Austen and why she never married.” [...]