
I guess this post is mostly going to be of immediate interest to UK readers. Sorry people, but knowing the way TV productions often eventually find their way all over, maybe it will be a heads up for everyone else also.
Who likes Jane Austin Novels? If I asked for a show of hands I bet it would be pretty solid vote.
Well the UK’s ITV1 is screening a new series on Wednesday Sept 3rd (tomorrow). The high concept is ‘Ashes to Ashes’ meets ‘Pride and Prejudice’.
Now it depends on how well this is done, but it has good potential to be romantic fun.
For those who don’t know it ‘Ashes to Ashes’ is a UK TV series about a Naughties female cop who gets shot and somehow finds herself in the 1980s working with a curiously engaging, if rough and unreconstructed, Detective Gene Hunt. Is the rough etc. why he is so curiously engaging?

The poetically titled ‘Lost in Austin’ stars Gemma Arterton as Amanda
Price, get it.. Mansfield Park... who just loves Jayne Austin novels and sooo longs for romance.
One day she finds a secret door that leads into her favourite ‘Austin’, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and (forgetting all about modern dentistry, shampoo, conditioners, antibiotics, votes for women etc.), what girl could resist with thoughts of Mr Darcy, steps through it.
But what happens to the original story line when modern day Amanda Price is added to the mix…
I plan to catch it on TV and find out (and hope it delivers on some of it’s potential). Maybe you will too…