It’s not only alive, it’s got out of its cage!
Indiantelevision.com reports that Granada is shopping Lost In Austen to foreign markets at a television trade event this month.
Another new show is Lost In Austen. In the show a thoroughly modern heroine threatens to ruin one of the world’s greatest literary love stories in this reinvention of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Hollywood actress Alex Kingston stars alongside Hugh Bonneville, Lindsay Duncan (Rome) and new Bond girl Gemma Arterton. Bored bank worker Amanda Price (Jemima Roper) literally becomes lost in her favourite Austen book, after she finds a strange portal in her bathroom and swaps places with its heroine Elizabeth Bennet.
As she gets to know the Bennet family and encounters the famous Mr Darcy (Elliot Cowan – The Golden Compass), how can she keep this celebrated romance on track?
Raise pikes and prepare to be boarded! It’s getting out!!!
Incidentally, wasn’t this supposed to be broadcast on ITV this month? We couldn’t find anything on the ITV website. Here is a page about the series.
ETA: Alert Janeite Amo posted a link to the Region 2 DVDs in comments; release date is May 12, so presumably the series will be over by then. ETA: Release date has been changed to October 6…don’t be looking for it anytime soon.
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Rig the boarding nets, Mr. Bush!
April 4th, 2008 at 4:21 am
Oh dear. This may achieve what we thought impossible - make Becoming Jane a restrained and sensible drama. (”As if!” to quote Cher.) I will say that I really like Jemima Roper though.
April 6th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
I think you posted that link back in Nov. The only news I’ve heard is in the current (May) Marie Claire, there’s a small pic and a blurb saying it’ll be on this month, which would seem to be supported by Amazon’s 12th May DVD release: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Austen-Tom-Riley/dp/B0014T7ETQ
April 6th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Hey Amo, thanks for the DVD link. That gives a general time frame of when to expect it to be broadcast. I’ve seen three episodes and four episodes, and the 12th is a Monday, so it probably will be broadcast on Sunday nights, starting either April 20 or April 27. Or maybe not.
I did post that link before, but we’ve had lots of new visitors as a result of the new films being broadcast in the U.S., and with no other news, I thought I might as well post it again.