Jane Austen Fourplay Down Under
It looks like the three new ITV films and the old Emma will will be broadcast on ABC in Australia sometime in 2008.
Jane Austen Fourplay. Four of Jane Austen’s great works, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, come to the screen in this four-part special.
Parenthetically, isn’t it interesting that the claims made when the new films were first commissioned that “every generation deserves its own new adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels” didn’t include Emma? Has this generation (for whatever value of “this” you wish to apply) been naughty and sent to bed early without a new Emma? “No Emma for you!” Just wondering…
December 14th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
“Fourplay?” Seriously?
December 15th, 2007 at 1:27 am
Well, it is the ‘West Australian’. (I know of what I speak - I was born in that part of the country, and the West is not what you’d call a great newspaper.) Mags, it looks like the link is broken, as the story appearing is now about Telstra, our national telecommunications provider. And I can tell you that, as an employee of said company, JA and Telstra have virtually nothing in common, except for our fair share of Mr Collinses
December 15th, 2007 at 2:30 am
My bad, Amanda–I’ve fixed the link. Thanks!
Yes, Fourplay. Seriously.
December 18th, 2007 at 6:43 am
So, we don’t get the documentary Miss Austen Regrets ?