Just a little collection for fun... I always like their trailers.

( Tess of the D'Urbervilles )

( Sense & Sensibility )

( Jane Eyre )


And here are some DVD trailers, the first I'd never seen before:

( Cranford )

( Sense & Sensibility )

Bleak House

Unfortunately, that's all I could find. I've never seen an actual trailer for North and South — not on any DVDs or anything, though I've seen ads for just about everything else. (Wives & Daughters, Daniel Deronda, The Way We Live Now, He Knew He Was Right and Bleak House. Ah, well...

Well, not really. :P Just because I want to keep track of these without bookmarking all of them.

The Trailer:

( BBC Breakfast Interviews with 'Cranford' cast members )

And Happy Mother's Day! Especially to all you moms, but even if you're not a mom yet, I hope you had a lovely day with your family and pampering your own mother. Apparently this was the first mother's day in years where we weren't out visiting family, so I think it was a nice restful day for my mom. We went to church, and then we had a nice take out lunch from a yummy restaurant, and after that was presents and cards. I got my mom a nice pansy china mug from Royal Dalton. (She loves pansies and has a collection of various things, especially teacups and the like.) My grandma (my mom's mom) ended up coming over as well, so that was nice. Later in the afternoon we watched home videos, which was rather fun. I love watching old videos — there's something special about seeing videos from yester-years, something you don't get with still photos. Although the last one we watched was at my grandpa's 70th birthday party in 1992, and everyone was making speeches, and I almost started crying at one point. I miss him so much! I can't imagine how my grandma misses him.

From the BBC Press Office:

Dame Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton, Francesca Annis, Julia McKenzie and Jim Carter return in the popular award-winning BBC One drama about the lives of the people of Cranford, in a two-part special for Christmas 2009, it was announced today.... The Christmas special picks up the story in September 1844, a year after the town celebrates the wedding of Sophy (Kimberley Nixon) and Dr Harrison (Simon Woods).

Who else is excited?! :D

(Thanks to ladybluelake for sharing, and posting the link.)

WHAT?!

Aw,PBS is showing "The Amazing Mrs Pritchard" and I'm not there! How cruel. This was actually on TV where I live before I came over here. I missed the first episode and then I saw the second and then I flew out so I couldn't finish it. :(

It grabbed my attention because it has both Carey Mulligan and Steven Mackintosh (John Harmon in Our Mutual Friend)! It is weird, though, because he plays her dad, but oh well. They actually do look like they could be father and daughter...

What I saw was very good. It's about a regular wife who runs a store with an ordinary life. Fed up with the politicians arguing outside her store, she decides to run in her own party tomake a point. Then she ends up winning and becoming Prime Minister of the UK! And so it continues.

I would see it if I was you and you get PBS! Looks good and worth the watch. :)

P.S. On another note, it looks like I will be back before they show the new Sense and Sensibility! It'll be airing on PBS in April I believe. I don't even know when it's supposed to be airing in the UK.

P.P.S. And I'm so looking forward to the Cranford Chronicles. I saw an advert for them when I saw Robin Hood last week! It's coming soon, yay :D I'm reading the book too.

I found a website with lots of news on the new Cranford Chronicles miniseries here. It looks like it focuses on Judi Dench, but they've got some pictures and a scan of an article/pictures of the cast on set. (Most of the pictures in that scan are from that site I mentioned before, so it's nothing new.)

Just thought some of you might like to know. The more I look at this page, the less info seems to be on it... Oh, well.

Oh, wait, this looks good — there's a CranfordChronicles.com, "The Unofficial Fansite for the BBC One's new Elizabeth Gaskell Drama."

P.S. It's funny when you're googling something and your own website/LJ comes up. :P

First, here's summary of the miniseries, from The BBC:

Based on three Elizabeth Gaskell novels: Cranford, My Lady Ludlow and Mr Harrison's Confessions, this witty and poignant story follows the small absurdities and major tragedies in the lives of the people of Cranford during one extraordinary year.

Cranford in the 1840s is a small Cheshire market town on the cusp of change. The railway is pushing its way relentlessly towards the town from Manchester, bringing fears of migrant workers and the breakdown of law and order.

The arrival of handsome new doctor, Frank Harrison (Simon Woods) from London causes a stir; not only because of his revolutionary medical methods, but also because of the effect he has on many of the ladies' hearts in the town.

Judi Dench plays Miss Matty Jenkyns, whose hopes and rebellious spirit are crushed when she was forced as a young woman to give up Mr Holbrook (Michael Gambon), the man she loved.

And here are some pictures (with lots more here):


"Simon Woods as the handsome Doctor Frank Harrison"

( More of Simon Woods )

( Greg Wise )

( And last but not least, Andrew Buchan! You'll recognize him, trust me. )

It's not hard to see who I like the best, eh? I can't wait to see Simon Woods in another [19th century] period drama. :)

Remember I mentioned the Cranford Chronicles a little while ago? Well, I just stumbled onto the IMDb page, and guess who's in it?

SIMON WOODS!

Ah, I'm so excited! He's playing Doctor Harrison. Does anyone have any idea what kind of role that is? I would love to see him as a lead — preferrably the hero, and not the bad guy.

Also, Rose Byrne is in it, as well as some a lot of other recognizable names — Francesca Annis (Wives & Daughters, Jane Eyre) Michael Gambon (Wives & Daughters, Harry Potter), Greg Wise (Sense & Sensibility), Julia Sawalha (Lydia in Pride & Prejudice 1995), Imelda Staunton (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), and Claudie Blakely (Charlotte in Pride & Prejudice 2005). Oh, yes, and of course there's Judi Dench.

I'm so excited!

Snagged from noyo88

Go to Google.com

Click on Maps.

Click on "get Directions".

From New York

To Oslo

And read line # 23.

If you laugh, repost this.

In other news, I am trying to wait patiently for my new Macbook — "trying" being the key word, haha. They said it was supposed to be ready yesterday (Thursday) so I thought I would expect it for today. But it keeps getting delayed, and now it's not even ready for today. I wouldn't mind waiting one more day, expect that a) now I really have to wait the whole weekend, and b) I already took in my old computer to transfer everything over, so now I am without any computer. I am just using my brother's as a last resort, but it feels weird — I can't save anything, I can't make anything, and he could walk in the door any minute and force me off. :/ Oh, well, a weekend without much computer will do me good. And when I do get my new one, I'll probably be on it wa-a-a-ay too much, watching all my favourite videos! I am so excited. Plus, I will have 80 GB of space! That seems like a lot compared to my measley 10 or 13, haha. I debated whether or not I should have splurged for the 120 GB or so, but it would be more efficient to buy an external hardrive (with 320 GB for only $250, instead of spending $200 on only 40 extra gigs) so I didn't.

Here's more news on BBC's new Sense & Sensibility via AustenBlog. I feel lazy just getting all my information from there, but it's quite entertaining reading it from their point of view, snark and all. :)

I'm also really looking forward to this — the BBC is also making a five part miniseries called Cranford Chronicles based on two or three novels by Elizabeth Gaskell. One of them is Cranford but I'm not sure of any other novels that they are using. :/ I'm trying to find out. More news here.

Cranford Chronicles is based on three Gaskell books - Cranford, Mr Harrison's Confessions and My Lady Ludlow.

Her novels Wives and Daughters and North and South were serialised by the BBC in 1999 and 2004 respectively.

But at any rate, I'll definitely be adding those to my reading list! I really love the two I've read (and seen) of Elizabeth Gaskell's novels so far! And I can't wait for this miniseries. It looks like it will be airing this fall, too, which is nice — I thought it was for next year.

ETA: here's another page on the subject. It's also got producer Sue Birtwistle connected to it, so that's encouraging. (She did Pride & Prejudice 1995 and Wives & Daughters.)

Little kids are so cute. I seriously have such a great job. ;)