RADIO TIMES previews Jane Austen Season
A quick hit-and-run posting–regular posting WILL return this weekend! We are determined, Captain!
Alert Janeite Sylvia M. found scans from Radio Times on the three new ITV Austen adaptations, including nice photos from each, and passed them on with permission from the individual who scanned them. There are photos from filming of NA and Persuasion and a tale of two Fannys.
Quick comments from the Editrix: we are astonished that James Morland came to Bath to drive his sister, and look like a fool; diverting traffic on the Royal Crescent must not have been THAT difficult–it’s not like it’s on the way to anywhere–but finding somewhere to park all the resident’s cars must have been a job indeed!; and we can really see Billie Piper as Fanny Price now! And Joseph “Mangan” is playing William Price–do they mean Morgan? Must run, but more later!
I don’t think it’s James Morland on the picture, but John Thorpe! I might be wrong, of course…
Nice to see that there are finally pictures from Mansfield Park as well.
I can’t wait to see all of them. Now news though about S&S on BBC.
I agree with Franka — that’s William Beck (John Thorpe), not Hugh O’Conor (James Morland).
“Nothing gratuitous”? Well, we’ll see.
Does anyone know exactly when these are going to be broadcast on ITV? And if there’s any way in Hades it would be possible to view them on the European Continent? We get BBC in Holland, but not ITV. I’m thinking my only option is probably going to be to try and get someone there to record them for me.
I’ve written to ITV but haven’t heard back yet. It took a few days for Masterpiece Theatre to confirm the USA broadcast, so I hope to have an answer next week.
I’ve seen ads on the web for a service called “Live UK TV” where you pay a monthly fee to watch British TV from your computer. I have no idea if this is a reliable, worthwhile service but it might be worth a look.
Gosh, that was fast! I apologize for double-commenting, but here’s what ITV had to say:
So there you have it, such as it is.
Newby Hall’s website says Mansfield Park will be shown in Feb/March 2007.
http://www.newbyhall.co.uk/netbuildpro/process/9/LatestNews.html?PHPSESSID=57763149a4fb787fefc76d6d92b53408
…declares himself while standing in the rain!?!?!?! Teresa runs off screaming…
Well, Teresa, I think it is a bit ‘cliché’, but I thank to the writer that he/she has not put the declaration with a circus walking down the street….
Anyway, I wish I had not seen the photo…:’(
And of course, I wish any Spanish TV would buy the films…(just few saw P&P2 by cable TV, and then nothing till the series went out in DVD in 2004!!!), I would like to see them!!
Let’s remember that everything that gets written in the magazines is not necessarily fact. As has already been pointed out in the NA photo they stated the wrong actor’s name with the wrong character. The actor in the MP photo has the wrong last name and possibly is the wrong character as well. I assume this magazine saw the wet pavement in that photo of Captain Wentworth and Anne and drew the conclusion that he declared himself in the rain.
By the way it appears like Anne is holding THE LETTER in this photo.
Here’s a picture of Hugh O’Conor who is playing James Morland.
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/hh/0640560/HH/0640560/hughoconor.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=O%27Conor,%20Hugh
Here’s a picture of William Beck who is playing John Thorpe.
http://www.whatsonstage.com/Festen/Pictures/william_beck.jpg
I would say that is John Thorpe and not James Morland in the photo with Catherine.
Catherine Morland is “overheated”? Impressionable, yes, but overheated?
As far as Captain Wentworth declaring himself in the rain, at least they are not both wet and dripping–we can be thankful for that!
By the way it appears like Anne is holding THE LETTER in this photo.
Wow, she ran all the way from Bath Street to the Royal Crescent after him? Guess that’s the same moviemaking magic that got Colin Firth dressed and out the door by the time Lizzy got to her carriage…but at least the Gravel Walk is handy! (Tho’ as the tour guide said to us…”It’s more properly called the Tarmac Walk now.”)
Yep, that’s deffinately John Thorpe with Catherine and not James. What a scoundrel! Running off with Catherine, while you might notice a gentleman and lady walk calmly together down the street, could it be Henry and Eleanor? Is Catherine scolding Mr. Thorpe?
I don’t know why but I’m having a little trouble seeing Sally Hawkins as Anne, it’s so strange. I love that letter sceen though!
Billie is perfect! I love her golden curls! She’s going to make a nice Fanny, but I wonder what she and William could be talking about, sitting about the lawn on cusions now less!
I was in raptures and made innumerable squees when I saw this.
Oh please, not more rain! It was okay-ish in P+P3 because what can you expect from a Hollywood production, right? But we expect better from something more along the lines of BBC. Don’t really like the look of Sally Hawkins, and especially holding out the letter like that–I like how in the book the letter’s sort of unspoken (from what I remember). But I certainly like the look of Rupert Penry-Jones!
Billy Piper and Julia Joyce look super cute! Do they ever look alike! I always imagined Fanny as a brunette, with the very plain, mousy brown hair. Oh well. For some reason, I have confidence in these two girls.
I kinda thought that the guy in the “carriage” was Thorpe. I don’t like the sound of what’s happening to our long-awaited NA2!! If it gets too racy, Andrew Davies, your neck is going to be twisted!
Im curious as to know, is there any possibilty of people in Canada to be able to watch these tv movies once then are broadcasted in ITV? Itv is not offered here in Canada =(
I don’t think the rain in Persuasion is deliberate. I watched the filming for a while when they were shooting scenes in the Royal Crescent, and it was drizzling on and off all day. They stopped when the rain got harder, but there wasn’t a lot they could do – it was just one of those dull, miserable English days.
Sally Hawkins is a brilliant actress and I’m looking forward to seeing her Anne!
As far as Persuasion and a “rainy Bath” are concerned, recall that on “that” particular day, Anne was unable to be punctual in arriving at the White Hart Inn to spend “breakfast to dinner” with the Musgroves as she had promised because of the unfavourable weather. She headed out as soon as it had cleared, and while JA may not have written anything about it beginning to rain or drizzle again after that, it’s certainly rather providential that Anne and CW should have their epiphanal moment (or however you want to put it) in the wet and perhaps still rainy streets of Bath in the upcoming P3.
I would like to think that JA would have approved, and perhaps been a bit more forgiving and understanding of the weather than we are in this day and age
The Hello Magazine website has two new pictures of Rupert Penry Jones and the cast of Persuasion:
http://www.hellomagazine.com/film/2006/11/10/rupert-penry-jones/