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The Jane Austen Season

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First episode date
  
18 March 2007

Final episode date
  
1 April 2007

Nominations
  
TCA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Miniseries and Specials

Similar
  
Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Emma, Miss Austen Regrets, The Real Jane Austen

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The Jane Austen Season is a British television series of dramas based on novels by Jane Austen. The season began on ITV at 9:00 p.m. on Sunday 18 March 2007, with Mansfield Park. The following week, Northanger Abbey was aired. The season ended with the airing of Persuasion on Sunday 1 April 2007. A repeat of the 1996 feature-length film Emma was broadcast on Friday 6 April 2007. The combined ITV and BBC series was shown in the United States by the PBS Masterpiece Theatre drama anthology television series from January through March 2008.

Contents

United Kingdom

  • Mansfield Park – first aired on 18 March 2007.
  • Northanger Abbey – first aired on 25 March 2007.
  • Persuasion – first aired on 1 April 2007.
  • Emma – first aired on 24 November 1996.

    • United States

    The following films were first aired in the United States on WGBH-TV as part of the PBS Masterpiece series, The Complete Jane Austen.

  • Persuasion – 13 January 2008. Sally Hawkins stars as Anne Elliot.
  • Northanger Abbey – 20 January 2008. Felicity Jones plays romance addict Catherine Morland.
  • Mansfield Park – 27 January 2008. Austen's most complex plot stars Billie Piper as Fanny Price.
  • Miss Austen Regrets – 3 February 2008. Olivia Williams; this film biography dramatizes Austen's lost loves.
  • Pride and Prejudice – 10–24 February 2008. Colin Firth portrays Mr. Darcy and Jennifer Ehle portrays Elizabeth Bennet.
  • Sense and Sensibility – 30 March – 6 April 2008. Hattie Morahan plays Elinor Dashwood, and Charity Wakefield plays her sister, Marianne.
  • Emma – 4–25 October 2009. Kate Beckinsale stars in the title role.

    • References

    The Jane Austen Season Wikipedia
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