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.

That episode was awesome! And I loved Cary Mulligan. :D It was fun to see her in something modern and not in the 19th century.

I have made a picspam of the ep — I know, I'm getting into the bad habit of "picspamming" everything I watch. :/ (I haven't even gotten to posting some of them.) But anyway, on to the pictures! ( &c. )

I wish there could have been more of this episode — I liked the characters. :) Figures, with all the two-parters this season, this story was only one episode. Oh, well, it wouldn't work anyway...

And look who's back next episode! Can't wait! ( &c. ) :D

ETA: Woah — the guy in this ep, the guy from Persuasion, Finlay Robertson, is in a couple of episodes of Robin Hood! Small world. It's a very small part, just "the sheriff's first man," but still — I shall have to see if I can spot him! I would like to see more of him, I think.

On another Robin Hood-Persuasion connection, the guy who plays Charles Musgrove in Persuasion was also in the "Who Shot the Sheriff" episode. :P I recognized him.

(As you can see, I have a thing for posting/collecting pictures right now.)

The official ITV Jane Austen Season website is up, and with that comes more pictures — yay! I'm so excited for Northanger Abbey :D Although I'm disappointed at the lack of J.J. Feild pictures. There's only the one promo. But I am happy to see all the pics of Carey Mulligan! ( &c. )

ITV has a trailer out for its Jane Austen season — you can see it here. It includes the new Persuasion, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey. I'm excited about NA the most! And for many reasons. I even have pictures to explain. ( &c. ) I can't wait. :D I really liked the novel, but the 1986 BBC version was terrible. *Shudder* I'm glad this story is finally getting its turn! (Here is NA 2007's IMDb page.)

I'm also excited to see Mansfield Park starring Billie Piper, though I want to read the book first. It's the only Austen novel I haven't read.

ETA: For more info on the American Jane Austen season on PBS, you can check out the summary at AustenBlog.

These will be airing in March i the UK, I believe. The DVDS are already avilable for preorder on Region 1 discs. And what else? Yes, and adaptation of Sense & Sensibility is also being made, but that is by the BBC and will probably air in September 2007 in the UK, right? The screenplay is being written by Andrew Davies, who has done Pride & Prejudice (1995), WIves & Daughters and Bleak House.

And on another note, ( here's ) a fun cap of Allan A Dale! I don't know why but I had to cap it. :P I think it's from the season finale.

Oh, and three_nails brought it to my attention that the first season of Robin Hood is set for release in the US (North America?) at the beginning of June! YAY!!!!!! June 5th, actually.


You can read more about it here.

I seem to have assembled another collection of P&P icons. :P Yes, I love this movie — I wish it were on DVD now! As it is, these screencaps and icons will have to hold me over.

Teasers:


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I'm really sorry I haven't been commenting on your journals! I've meaning to do that more, but instead I've been doing it less and less. :/ I've just been really tired and not feeling very good, so I have just read them.

I've also been meaning to post some more of my "real life" in here, and I started an entry but never really got to finishing it. Maybe I'll do that sometime... I haven't really journaled lately because there's not much going on (except school and exams — blah) and it's more fun posting icons and stuff. Yes... I think I prefer living in a little fandom world... quite sad.


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