The Jane Austen Season

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

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

United States

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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.

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Notes

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  1. ^ 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

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  1. ^ 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.
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