Austen’s Works More Than Complete On WGBH Series
Lovers of Jane Austen’s novels will want to tune in to PBS this year, which is playing an adaptation of every one of Jane Austen’s works, plus a movie of biographical fiction based upon her life, Miss Austen Regrets. Persuasion played a week ago. Northanger Abbey was on last night. Both of these are new adaptations, as will be Sense and Sensibility, the last of the series, to play on March 30 and April 6th. Given the strong changes to the plot of Sense and Sensibility in the Emma Thompson version some years ago, it ought to be interesting to see how this story is brought to screen.
Becoming Jane, a fictionalized biography of Jane Austen, is due to be released on DVD on Feb 12, 2008, so it ought to be a great time for Austen enthusiasts… who then can return to her books when their TV sets have cooled.
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