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'''''The Jane Austen Season''''' is a British television series of dramas based on the novels by [[Jane Austen]].<ref name="Day">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/nov/10/broadcasting.ITV?INTCMP=SRCH|title=ITV falls in love with Jane Austen|last=Day|first=Julia|date=10 November 2005|work=[[The Guardian]]|accessdate=26 May 2019|archive-date=11 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411140339/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/nov/10/broadcasting.ITV?INTCMP=SRCH|url-status=live}}</ref> The season began on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] at 9:00&nbsp;p.m. on Sunday 18 March 2007 with ''[[Mansfield Park (2007 film)|Mansfield Park]]''. The following week, ''[[Northanger Abbey (2007 film)|Northanger Abbey]]'' was broadcast. The season ended with ''[[Persuasion (2007 film)|Persuasion]]'' on Sunday 1 April 2007. A repeat of the 1996 feature-length film ''[[Emma (1996 TV 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 (TV series)|Masterpiece Theatre]]'' drama anthology television series from January through April 2008.

==United Kingdom==
[[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]'s ''The Jane Austen Season'' consisted of the following television films.
* ''[[Mansfield Park (2007 film)|Mansfield Park]]'' – first aired on 18 March 2007.
* ''[[Northanger Abbey (2007 film)|Northanger Abbey]]'' – first aired on 25 March 2007.
* ''[[Persuasion (2007 film)|Persuasion]]'' – first aired on 1 April 2007.
* ''[[Emma (1996 TV film)|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 (TV series)|Masterpiece]]'' series ''The Complete Jane Austen''.
* ''[[Persuasion (2007 film)|Persuasion]]'' – 13 January 2008. [[Sally Hawkins]] stars as Anne Elliot.
* ''[[Northanger Abbey (2007 film)|Northanger Abbey]]'' – 20 January 2008. [[Felicity Jones]] plays romance addict Catherine Morland.
* ''[[Mansfield Park (2007 film)|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 (1995 TV series)|Pride and Prejudice]]'' – 10–24 February 2008. [[Colin Firth]] portrays Mr. Darcy and [[Jennifer Ehle]] portrays Elizabeth Bennet.
* ''[[Emma (1996 TV film)|Emma (1996)]]'' – 23 March 2008. [[Kate Beckinsale]] stars in the title role.
:* ''[[Emma (2009 TV serial)|Emma (2009)]]'' – 4–25 October 2009. [[Romola Garai]] portrays Emma.{{efn|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.}}
* ''[[Sense and Sensibility (2008 miniseries)|Sense and Sensibility]]'' – 30 March – 6 April 2008. [[Hattie Morahan]] plays Elinor Dashwood, and [[Charity Wakefield]] plays her sister, Marianne.

==See also==
* [[Jane Austen in popular culture]]
* [[List of Masterpiece Classic episodes|List of ''Masterpiece Classic'' episodes]] [[List of Masterpiece Classic episodes#Season 38 (2008)|(Season 38)]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081104082220/http://www.pbs.org:80/wgbh/masterpiece/austen/ ''The Complete Jane Austen'' (archived)] at [[PBS]] [[Masterpiece (TV series)|''Masterpiece Classic'']] (original edition with 1996's ''Emma'')
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20161129055213/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/austen/ Jane Austen (archived)] at [[PBS]] [[Masterpiece (TV series)|''Masterpiece Classic'']] (later edition with 2009's ''Emma'')

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