S&S08 to be re-run on Masterpiece Classics in February
PBS is following up last season’s Complete Jane Austen with a big ol’ dose of Dickens (and Hardy, and Emily Brontë). More to the point for this blog, they also will be re-broadcasting Sense and Sensibility in two parts on February 1 and 8, 2009. Relive the magic!
Also, Laura Linney will be the host of Masterpiece Classics this season.
November 25th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Yay! And (though not as exciting) Persuasion 2007. And the crown - Little Dorrit (I love rogue satellite signals). Looks like another Davies-heavy season (at least, in terms on lengthy series).
A tiny funny note: the star of “The Old Curiosity Shop” is Sophie Vavasseur, whose main credit to date is Northanger Abbey. Er, as which character? One of the Miss Thorpes! (Oh, and some guy plays the hero in Little Dorrit - Matthew Macsomethingorother- I vaguely remember him in some Austen film a couple of years back.)
“The Incomplete Charles Dickens” cracks me up, though. Even if every film were only 90-150 minutes, like most of the Austen films last year, they still couldn’t do all 14-16 novels (if there were even films for all of them).
November 25th, 2008 at 1:03 am
Nice use of lolausten
November 25th, 2008 at 9:23 am
I wish they would do a “Not-Quite-Complete Gaskell” and re-run Cranford with the 2009 sequel in the works, show North and South, Wives and Daughters, and commission an adaptation of Mary Barton.
As for Persuasion 2007, all I can say is that I am underwhelmed with enthusiasm
November 25th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
I actually really, really loved Davies’s Sense and Sensibility; It was quite as good as Emma Thompson’s. So that good news. Also, I’m looking forward to Laura Linney as host. Gillian Anderson was a bit solemn.
November 25th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
That’s my favorite LOLAusten of them all.
November 25th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
OOOOOOh this is exciting! First of all, I watched the vid with Laura Linney and I infinetly prefer her over Gillian Anderson. Also, S & S 08′ was fabulous, in my opinion. Obviously I’m looking forward to Persuasion the most ;), lol. My Boy Jack was fabulous, which wuthering heights adaptation is it though? The one with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche?
Doesn’t masterpiece theatre classics also show in Canada? Which means I can finally see the new version of Tess! It looks AMAZING.
I agree with Maria L. - a not quite complete Gaskell would be great, I LOVED Cranford, Wives and daughters and north and south - the latter 2 movies being 2 of my favourite movies
November 25th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Mags @ #5, did you mean P3 was your favorite LOLAusten or S&S3? If it was P3 I can definitely see what you mean!:)
I really liked S&S3. Everything wasn’t perfect, but as a whole I liked it better than S&S2. The main things (besides that opening scene)that I didn’t like were the following: Marianne was calmer then the book Marianne; thought she should have cried more; the engagement of Marianne and the Col. should have been later like in the book; the Dashwoods’ cottage wasn’t supposed to be directly by the sea and should have had a second story; the Palmers were majorly underwritten; the wood chopping scene was odd; the duel should have been placed in a different spot. All in all, those things are rather trivial complaints compared to some adaptations that majorly change the plot, the characters’ personalities, and put words in people’s mouths that were actually said by other people in the book. I really liked S&S1, except for the ending, the missing Margaret, and Col. Brandon. Other then that it was great.
November 25th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Laura, the Wuthering Heights adaptation is an all-new one
This is all so exciting! I’m looking forward to the whole season!
November 25th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Maria L @ #3 I would go for an “Not Quite Complete Gaskell” as well! I loved Wives and Daughters, really enjoyed North & South (more than P&P), and am longing to get my hands on Cranford.
Darn it! Bleak House didn’t make the cut for the “Incomplete Dickens.”
November 26th, 2008 at 12:15 am
Another pump for “Alomst Complete Gaskell” - Wives and Daughters particularly deserves another exposure. Justine Waddell shows (along with Anna Maxwell Martin in Bleak House and Claire Foy in Little Dorrit) that Mansfield Park doesn’t have to make Fanny Price spunky for the story to be successful.
November 26th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Oh good, something(s) to look forward to, and hooray for Laura Linney instead of Gillian A. My favorite LOLAusten was “What do you mean, it’s not in the book?” I wish that one came in a T-shirt.
December 9th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
I has a big gun let me show you it…..Must of been written by A>D> hisself?