Alert Janeite Lisa sent us an entry on Production Charts for Sense & Sensibilidad that lists it as filming in February 2008.

A contemporary adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility,” focusing on a modern Mexican family in Los Angeles. It is the tale of two sisters: Mary, a young beauty who chooses passion over logic and Nora, a law student whose fixed moral compass keeps her from following her desires. They are uprooted, along with their mother, from their luxurious lifestyle in San Marino when their father suddenly passes away. Out of money and out of options, the women move into their great aunt Aurelia’s modest, but lively home in the Latino-centric Boyle Heights neighborhood. The women find themselves thrown into a world that, despite their heritage, seems completely foreign. However, over time, they uncover the joy, laughter and beauty of the culture they once fought so desperately to hide. In the process they find the one thing that eluded them: love.

The Odd Lot International website lists cast as TBA. {subliminal girl sez america ferrera america ferrera america ferrera america ferrera}

Alert Janeite Lisa let us know that Gillian Anderson, best known as Agent Dana Scully in the X-Files and more recently as Lady Dedlock in Bleak House, will be hosting Masterpiece Classic, as the winter/spring programming will now be known on Masterpiece Theatre.

Ms. Anderson will introduce the January-to-May block of costume dramas that are to be known as “Masterpiece Classic.” They will begin this season with adaptations of six Jane Austen novels. Additional hosts will be chosen to introduce summer programming under the rubric “Masterpiece Mystery!” and the fall block of dramas, to be known as “Masterpiece Contemporary.”

Aww, does that mean the Edward Gorey animations will go away for Mystery? Poo.

The Times story contains information about the other “classic” programming coming up. (Pray note our careful use of quotation marks.)

In addition to the Austen films, which will begin with a new adaptation of “Persuasion,” starring the British actress Sally Hawkins, the season includes “Miss Austen Regrets,” a biography of the novelist. Other films include “Cranford,” a three-part mini-series starring Judi Dench; “My Boy Jack,” starring Daniel Radcliffe, of the Harry Potter movies, playing the son of the author Rudyard Kipling; and a new adaptation of E. M. Forster’s “Room With a View.”

Cranford? Is awesome. So far. We’ve heard rather the opposite about the new RWaV…

In other Complete Jane Austen news, Alert Janeite Marylou let us know that the January issue of O (Oprah’s magazine) has a positive review of the Complete Jane Austen in the Live Your Best Life section (but Marylou thinks they mixed up the photos for NA and Persuasion).