Masterpiece Theatre Jane Austen Festival now in January 2008?
A rumor has been whispered in our shell-pink ear that Masterpiece Theatre’s “Jane Austen Festival,” which will include the latest adaptations of Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility, will be broadcast on PBS beginning in January 2008, not in November 2007 as previously reported. Please treat this as rumor until we receive confirmation, which should be fairly soon, but our sources are very good.
Also we are told that the film adaptation of Karen Joy Fowler’s novel The Jane Austen Book Club might be out as soon as September 2007.
ETA: Confirmation received.
May 7th, 2007 at 1:13 am
Blah! I want to write about these adaptations for school!
May 8th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
In the info on Joseph Mawle (Harville in Persuasion) on the PBS site of “The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton,” it’s stated that Persuasion will be aired in 2008.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/mrsbeeton/whos_who.html
May 8th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
January!? I’m glad I watched them on youtube, and that youtube exists. It would be horrible to wait until Jaunary!