Posted by Robin
on 1/29/2009, 10:09 am, in reply to ""Emma" sans music coming to the BBC"
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Yep, I'm happy...
I really enjoyed the last "Jane" that was done, and "North and South" is one of the best mini-series that I've ever watched over and over and over again. (Love that HCMO, aka Handsome Cotton Mill Owner.) Truly, it's a magificent production.
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: But are we happy that it's the same person who
: adapted the last "Jane"? Here's
: the article and the link:
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: The BBC is remaking Jane Austen's Emma as a
: four-part costume drama to air on BBC1 in
: the autumn.
: Sandy Welch, who won a Bafta for Our Mutual
: Friend and also adapted Jane Eyre and North
: and South, is to write the four, one-hour
: episodes following the story of the
: "handsome, clever and rich" Emma
: Woodhouse.
: Emma is due to film in late spring or early
: summer, with casting yet to be announced.
: The BBC controller of drama commissioning,
: Ben Stephenson, and the BBC1 controller, Jay
: Hunt, commissioned the project from the
: BBC's drama department. Phillippa Giles is
: executive producer with George Ormond
: producing the serialisation.
: Stephenson said: "BBC drama is
: committed to retelling classic stories for a
: new generation of viewers and this four-part
: adaptation – the first serial version of
: Emma since the 1970s – gives Sandy the
: opportunity to find new detail and added
: psychological depth in Austen's
: characters."
: He added that 2009 period dramas also
: included Small Island, the book by Andrea
: Levy about postwar immigration from Jamaica,
: for BBC1, and Desperate Romantics, about a
: group of painters, poets and critics called
: the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 19th
: century industrial London, for BBC2.
: The BBC recently indicated it was moving
: away from classic 19th century
: "bonnet" dramas, although it did
: say it had one further project in this genre
: planned for this year.
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