The Complete Jane Austen nominated for Television Critics’ Award
The Complete Jane Austen has been nominated in the movies, miniseries and specials category for the Television Critics’ Awards.
As pointed out in the article, it’s an odd nomination, considering that two of the films included are more than a decade old. Why aren’t the individual films considered individually?
In other awards news, we heard from an Alert Janeite who attended the Jane Austen Regency World Awards and said there was some surprise at the many awards won by Becoming Jane at the awards as well as on this blog. She overheard one of the organizers saying that the results were skewed because the Australians who voted had not seen any of the films besides Becoming Jane and therefore could not vote for anything else. What, they don’t have YouTube in Australia?
June 14th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Surely the number of Australia’s citizens is insufficient to wield this power. A tiny fraction (a fortieth?)of the voting population would be unlikely to produce a dramatic ’skewing’ of the results.
The lamentable fact is that a large number of people, in every part of the world, prefer Austen’s work and ‘life’ dumbed down and served in a chocolate box. Luckily for them, the film-makers are increasingly happy to oblige.
Despite its diversions from the book, I enjoyed ITV’s ‘Northanger Abbey’. BBC’s Sense and Sensibility was also wonderful, although I didn’t see it until after the voting. As for the other two flicks - were they worth watching on Youtube?