The Jane Austen Season

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

Episodes

• 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.

US Masterpiece Classic: "The Complete Jane Austen"

Dates of first airing on WGBH:

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

External links

• MASTERPIECE "The Complete Jane Austen"