Jane Eyre Nominations and Reviews

The nominations for the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards have been announced. The latest Jane Eyre from the BBC has been nominated to some awards:

Best Drama Series
Jane Eyre (BBC One)
Life on Mars (BBC One)
The Line of Beauty (BBC Two)

Best Actress
Sue Johnston (The Street, Waking The Dead)
Helen Mirren (Prime Suspect)
Samantha Morton (Longford)
Ruth Wilson (Jane Eyre)

The 2007 BPG Awards lunch will be held at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on Friday March 23, 2007 and have been sponsored by Turner Broadcasting System Europe.

EDIT: More nominations for Jane Eyre:

TRIC (Television and Radio Industries Club) Awards:

TV Drama Programme (Sponsored by BEKO):
Dr Who
Jane Eyre
Spooks

The Dominion Post (New Zealand) reviews the last episode (the third) aired in New Zealand:

Bertha, played by Claudia Coulter, was a dead ringer for Mrs Douglas (Catherine Zeta Jones) and it was profoundly shocking to see the half Creole from the West Indies in flashback committing the kind of stand-up adultery any contemporary lap dancer would be proud of.
However, this was one of the few concessions to a modern interpretation of the Charlotte Bronte classic where the heart of the matter rests more in the passionate intensity of finding true soulmateship.
The actress Ruth Wilson, who reminds me of Kerry Fox, is at last a convincing plain enough Jane, particularly in the second episode where her pronounced overbite and thin mousy hair is in sharp contrast to the pretty, ringleted Miss Ingram, tipped the odds-on favourite to become Mr Rochester's wife.
In her sad drab grey dress Jane is invited into the bigoted and privileged circle of Mr Rochester's friends to fearlessly fight her corner when the governess is questioned by the imperious Mrs Ingram over the necessity of educating or trying to change the nature of children born of "bad blood".
The orphaned Jane, who was sent to the ghastly Dickensian Lowood school after she was turned out of her aunt's house by the hateful Mrs Reed, has had it drummed into her from her terrible infancy that she was born bad, and her vehement defence of children dragged up without rights or love is spirited to say the least.
Mr Rochester, played by Toby Stephens, listens intently and his chiseled features seem almost absurdly handsome as he bends forward to listen as Jane argues her case. (...)
Jane's terrible wedding day, where she is literally dragged up the hill of the village church to stand before God and be pronounced man and wife and the service is unjustly impeded is almost unbearable to watch.
She goes from elation to degradation in a matter of minutes and when she returns to her chamber to take off her wedding gown and place it with such careful tenderness on the chair, she is the personification of the bride stripped bare. She puts on the awful uniform of her grey workhouse dress and her grave face, resigned to her pre-Thornfield Hall fate, is beyond touching. Days before, she had to pinch herself that she was actually going to leap the social gap and take her rightful place at Mr Rochester's side as his equal. Now she is as cold as the charity that brought her up as Mr Rochester pounds at her bedroom door and begs her to run off with him abroad.
Unfortunately this is 1847, and not even the strong-minded and passionately natured Jane is big enough for bigamy, and her dreams are as torn as the bridal gown the crazed Bertha ripped up and destroyed one dark night.
Her interior state is laid out for us as she lies back on her bed and tries to take on board all that has happened.
The self-indulgent mad woman upstairs has won and there is nothing to be done but for the governess to once again govern her emotions and to make what was once big as small and plain as her form. (Jane Bowron)

Pictures, courtesy of Penny for Your Dreams.

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