The Jane Austen Season

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The Jane Austen Season was 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. An expanded series is being shown in the US by the PBS Masterpiece drama anthology television series from January through March 2008.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 - March 23 2008. Kate Beckinsale stars in the title role.