The Jane Austen Season

Special season of television films and series

The Jane Austen Season is a British television series of dramas based on the novels by Jane Austen.^[1] The season began on ITV at 9:00 p.m. on Sunday 18 March 2007 with Mansfield Park. The following week, Northanger Abbey was broadcast. The season ended with 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, titled The Complete Jane Austen, was shown in the United States by the PBS Masterpiece Theatre drama anthology television series from January through April 2008.

United Kingdom

ITV's The Jane Austen Season consisted of the following television films.

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 (rebroadcast on 6 April 2007).

United States

The following films and miniseries 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 plays the titular role in this biopic dramatizing Austen's lost loves.
Pride and Prejudice – 10–24 February 2008. Colin Firth portrays Mr. Darcy and Jennifer Ehle portrays Elizabeth Bennet.
Emma (1996) – 23 March 2008. Kate Beckinsale stars in the title role.

Emma (2009) – 4–25 October 2009. Romola Garai portrays Emma.^[a]

Sense and Sensibility – 30 March – 6 April 2008. Hattie Morahan plays Elinor Dashwood, and Charity Wakefield plays her sister, Marianne.

References

Notes

^ This newer version of Emma premiered a year after all of the other titles and was included in subsequent rebroadcasts of the US edition of the Jane Austen special. It also replaced the older version of Emma in the PBS official website, which included the TV special's episodes available to watch online.

Citations

^ Day, Julia (10 November 2005). "ITV falls in love with Jane Austen". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 26 May 2019.

External links

The Complete Jane Austen (archived) at PBS Masterpiece Classic (original edition with 1996's Emma)
Jane Austen (archived) at PBS Masterpiece Classic (later edition with 2009's Emma)

Jane Austen

Timeline

Works

Major	Sense and Sensibility (1811) Pride and Prejudice (1813) Mansfield Park (1814) Emma (1816) Northanger Abbey (1818) Persuasion (1818)
Minor	Lady Susan The Watsons (unfinished) Sanditon (unfinished) Plan of a Novel
Juvenilia	Love and Freindship The Beautifull Cassandra The History of England Catharine, or The Bower

Places

Family
and people

Analysis

Portrayals

Becoming Jane (2007 film)
Miss Austen Regrets (2007 film)

Category

Associated subjects

v t e Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility
Characters	Elinor Dashwood Edward Ferrars Marianne Dashwood John Willoughby Colonel Brandon
Films	Sense and Sensibility (1995) Soundtrack List of accolades Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000) From Prada to Nada (2011)
Television	Sense and Sensibility (1971) Sense and Sensibility (1981) Sense and Sensibility (2008)
Novels	The Secrets of Love (2005) Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters (2009)
Others	Kumkum Bhagya (2014)

v t e Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Characters	List of characters Bennet family Elizabeth Bennet Fitzwilliam Darcy William Collins Lady Catherine de Bourgh George Wickham
Films	Pride and Prejudice (1940) Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) Pride & Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy (2003) Bride and Prejudice (2004) Pride & Prejudice (2005) Austenland (2013 film) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) Fire Island (2022)
Television	Elizabeth Refuses (1957) Pride and Prejudice (1958) Pride and Prejudice (1967) Pride and Prejudice (1980) Trishna (1985) Pride and Prejudice (1995) Will be Somewhere (2004) Lost in Austen (2008) Death Comes to Pemberley (2013)
Novels	Darcy's Story (1995) Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) Mr. Darcy's Daughters (2003) Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman An Assembly Such as This (2003) Duty and Desire (2004) These Three Remain (2005) Austenland (2007) Love, Lies and Lizzie (2009) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009 parody) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls (2010 parody) Death Comes to Pemberley (2011) Longbourn (2013) Eligible (2016)
Theatre	First Impressions (1959 musical) Pride and Prejudice (1993 musical) Stolthet och fördom (2011 opera) Pride and Prejudice (sort of) (2018 play)
Other	"Beyond a Joke" (1997) The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (2012 web series) Stride & Prejudice (2013 video game)
See also	Pride & Prejudice (2005 soundtrack) Pemberley List of literary adaptations

v t e Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
Characters	Fanny Price Edmund Bertram Mary Crawford Henry Crawford Tom Bertram Maria Bertram Mr. Rushworth
Films	Mansfield Park (1999) Mansfield Park (2007)
Miniseries	Mansfield Park (1983)
Opera	Mansfield Park (2011)

v t e Jane Austen's Emma
Characters	Emma Woodhouse George Knightley Mr Woodhouse Mr Weston Miss Bates
Films	Clueless (1995) Emma (1996) Aisha (2010) Emma. (2020)
Television	Emma (1972) Clueless (1996) Emma (1996) Emma (2009)
Other	Emma Approved