More on costume dramas

Perhaps this is not completely Brontë-related, but since Brontë readers tend to like other literature from the period, we thought BrontëBlog readers might be interested in knowing a little bit more on what's going on at the BBC as far as costume dramas are concerned. Because we are not the only ones intrigued by what's coming up next and what isn't.

Coming up:

- 'Bleak House' [a series of fifteen episodes: the 60-minute pilot and the rest are 30-minute episodes] should be out this month in the UK, which, as I understand, will be broadcast in the US in 2006
- 'Sense and Sensibility' [Andrew Davies is the scr1ptwriter], which should be broadcast in 2007
- mini series of 'The Virgin Queen' - life and times of Elizabeth I
- 'The American Woman': the dramatisation of a romance between Edward and Wallis Simpson

NOT coming up anymore:

- Elizabeth Gaskell's 'The Cranford Chronicles' [three novels]
- Jane Austen's 'Lady Susan'
- Maria Edgeworth's 'Belinda'
- a drama of playwright Christopher Marlowe's last few days before his death
- Jules Verne's 'The Survivors of the Chancellor'
- 'The Scottish Jane Austen', a biography of Susan Ferrier, author of 'The Marriage'

*Sigh*

(Note: we have been unable to trace the source of that "new Jane Eyre" reported in yerterday's article. We'll keep an eye out for it. Stay tuned!)

Categories: Movies-DVD-TV, Jane_Eyre, Charlotte_Brontë