This looks like a job for the Cluebat of Janeite Righteousness
Our mailbox is full of indignant e-mails from Team Tilney members who, after waiting breathlessly for months for news about NA07, are presented with…this. The Editrix (who is, after all, the Alpha Cultist) feels your pain, ladies. This is just the sort of event for which the Cluebat of Janeite Righteousness was carved from a mighty limb of the Tree of Enlightenment. Fear not, all violence will be virtual. Dorothy’s passing out the titanium sporks (Jane Austen Festival 2007 Edition). No pushing. Don’t make us come over there. On to the spork-fisking!
The article is mostly about how ITV is shedding its trashy reality-TV image and, like a starlet who has “accidentally” displayed her Womanly Bits to the paparazzi one too many times, Just Wants To Be Taken Seriously. So what do they do? They embark upon a campaign of Serious Drama. And what says Serious Drama more than naked Anglican priests? (more…)
