Masterpiece™ Presents

Beginning in January 2008 on PBS, MASTERPIECE™ is inviting viewers to tune in on Sunday nights for "The Complete Jane Austen": new presentations of "Northanger Abbey," "Persuasion," "Mansfield Park" and "Sense and Sensibility." The lineup will also include the acclaimed "Emma," starring Kate Beckinsale, and "Pride and Prejudice," the Emmy award-winning miniseries that made Colin Firth a heartthrob. "Miss Austen Regrets," a true story based on Jane Austen's own letters and diaries, will be part of the four-month marathon.

Featured Programs

Sunday, January 13, 9-10:30 pm
Persuasion
In the first presentation of "The Complete Jane Austen," Sally Hawkins appears as Anne Elliot, destined for spinsterhood at age 27 after being persuaded eight years earlier to refuse the proposal of dashing Captain Wentworth.

Sunday, January 20, 9-10:30 pm
Northanger Abbey
Felicity Jones plays romance addict Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's gentle parody of gothic fiction.

Sunday, January 27, 9-10:30 pm
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen's most complex plot stars Billie Piper as Fanny Price, who goes to live with prosperous relatives at Mansfield Park.

Sunday, February 3, 9-10:30 pm
Miss Austen Regrets
If nothing else, Jane Austen wrote from personal experience. Courtship she knew well; only the last act eluded her. This film biography dramatizes Austen's lost loves.

Sundays, February 10-24, 9-11 pm
Pride and Prejudice
Colin Firth is Mr. Darcy and Jennifer Ehle is Elizabeth Bennet in the definitive adaptation of the most-loved of all Austen novels.

Sunday, March 23, 9-10:30 pm
Emma
Kate Beckinsale stars in the title role as the tireless matchmaker who professes no interest in matrimony for herself, only for her orphaned protégée.

Sundays, March 30-April 6, 9-10:30 pm
Sense and Sensibility
Though poor, the Dashwood sisters attract a trio of very promising gentlemen.

Related Links

 PBS web site
 MPT's Jane Austen Trivia Contest

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