<p>A new 3 part adaptation of “Emma” starts tonight on PBS’s “Masterpiece” - 9 pm East coast time. Web site also says it will be available for online viewing starting tomorrow.
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<p>Thanks for posting this. I heard it on the radio and rushed to set up my dvr. I dont know if you are a Mad Men fan, but I love that series too! </p>
<p>My d will willingly watch with me–but my husband thinks these movies are prime sleeping opportunities!</p>
<p>FYI-- there are BBC series available at most libraries and I have discovered some there that I had never seen-- The Duchess of Duke Street is a great example.</p>
<p>Thank you!!!</p>
<p>I will watch Jonny Lee Miller in anything. (Mansfield Park, The Flying Scotsman, Byron, et al)
Looking forward to it tonight.</p>
<p>Oh goody! What a relief to have Jane Austen after hours of noisy Saints and Vikings fans wafting through the halls! (Congrats New Orleans!)</p>
<p>Can’t believe I saw this site this a.m!! So sorry I missed it. I was watching my guilty pleasure, Big Love, last night. How’s that for eclectic–a Jane Austen fan who also enjoys Big Love?</p>
<p>^^You probably have another chance to see it. Most PBS stations have a repeat airing or two later in the week, usually at some odd hour like in the early AM or on a weekend afternoon. Check you local listing and tape it.</p>
<p>I found this production boring. But then, I’m not a big fan for Emma though I like the other Austen novels.</p>
<p>ELY- the PBS website said it would also be available for online viewing starting today.</p>
<p>I enjoyed it at least as much as the version with Gywneth Paltrow in the title role. The longer version allows for more fleshing out of the story’s details, which is good since it’s been decades since I read it!</p>
<p>I missed it; will have to look for it later this week. Marite–I like Emma, but not as much as P and P, or Persuasion (my two favorites by far.)</p>
<p>I found it “most diverting.”</p>
<p>I enjoyed it, but it did seem rather long. And there are still four more hours, right?</p>
<p>garland, Persuasion is one of my favorites, too, but I have yet to see a film/TV version that does it justice.</p>
<p>I love Persuasion. It’s also my favorite. I liked the film starring Ciaran Hinds (sp?).</p>
<p>oooo Ciaran Hinds as Captain Wentworth…</p>
<p>Newsflash: “Persuasion” returning next month:
<a href=“http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/schedule/masterpiece_classic_schedule.pdf[/url]”>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/schedule/masterpiece_classic_schedule.pdf</a></p>
<p>see which of the male characters is your match- I got Mr. Knightly!
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<p>Working at home today-think I will spend my lunch becoming a little more “accomplished” at the pianoforte!</p>
<p>So far I do not like this production nearly as much as the Gwyneth Paltrow version of Emma. I truly love that movie and have seen it many times.</p>
<p>I actually fell asleep before the end of the first episode! I thought Romula Garai played the part in a way that was too casual and flighty and modern for that time. She doesn’t hold herself in the proper manner for that era (corsets). (And I have Garai in other roles on PBS.)</p>
<p>The actor playing Knightley doesn’t look 16 years older than Emma. And the governess also doesn’t look old enough for the part. She would have to be about Knightley’s age or a little older, about 37-40. She looks only a little older than Emma. </p>
<p>On the plus side, I liked the settings and Michael Gambon as Emma’s father was wonderful.</p>
<p>Well musmom2 …I cannot boast of knowing more than half a dozen, in the whole range of my acquaintance, that are really accomplished."</p>
<p>I recorded it for future watching because I felt like watching tennis upstairs, but my husband watched it last night as it wa one; he reportedly liked it and did not fall asleep, which he did watching Cranford Part 2. I looked at bits of last night’s Emma briefly during tennis commercials and found it unexciting and Emma’s voice not as richly textured as Masterpiece actors sometimes are (I want to say shrill but cant believe it really was and maybe it was just my little bedroom TV)–also visually the production seemed very pretty but also very familiar and set-piecey, even a little washed out. </p>
<p>I agree that the Ciaran Hinds Persuasion was one of the best Austen screen efforts–and Emma Thompson’s Sense and Sensibility was excellent too (not made for TV but shown on TV sometimes). I do like Jane Austen both on the page and on screen but I think she is being seriously overexposed lately. (I saw the exhibit of her manuscripts and related materials at the Morgan Library last month and feel as though it is now time to take a break.) It may be time for PBS to rerun The Pallisers, or explore other relatively lighthearted British litereature works–but no more Dickens either (unless maybe a very creative version of his Child’s History of England)</p>
<p>Yes, I agree that Garai’s Emma was a little shrill. She did not have the proper voice or manners of a lady of that era! Think of Jennifer Ehle in Pride and Prejudice (and the beautiful blonde who played her sister), the sisters and mother in Thompson’s Sense and Sensibility–all conducted themselves as the ladies they were. Even Kate Winslet as Mary Anne, who was the “wild child” of her family comported herself and spoke in a ladylike fashion.</p>
<p>As you can see, I usually love any of these Austen productions. But this one…remains to be seen.</p>
<p>I adored Cranford–both series. I think that is the best series that’s been on Masterpiece in some time. I liked the two recent Dickens series too, but you are right, Mattmom, they were sad. My H was quite upset at Hard Times.</p>
<p>Musica: You have such a flair with language! haha. I am definitely not in the “most accomplished category”, it’s just part of my sanity/anti-Alzheimer’s program!</p>
<p>I am looking forward to having my book club over later this week (may need to be a sleep-over!) for a marathon of the Colin Firth/Jennifer Ehle “P+P”. We read it last month. Before D returned to college, we happened to revisit the Kiera Knightly version on TV as well as laugh a lot over an old 1940 version we rented which I had never seen, with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson in the main roles- complete liberty taken with plot lines, dialogue, setting, costumes etc.</p>