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Future Dame Keeley Hawes only just graced American television in May 2025 with her performance as Cassandra Austen in Masterpiece's Miss Austen. The production studio behind the period drama is working on creating a second season (which may or may not get picked up for production), but even
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The 250th anniversary celebration of Jane Austen's birth in December continues to be a central focal point for the entertainment industry in 2025. Thus far, we've had a feature film, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, and the PBS series Miss Austen. Still to come: The Other
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As it must, everything in Miss Austen turns out well in the end. Well, for a given value of "okay" at any rate. Cassandra commits some literary vandalism, Jane's legacy is preserved, and we're given an explanation for why one of those things needed
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The viewing experience of Miss Austen often feels like two completely different shows fighting under a blanket. There's the more pedestrian primary narrative, which follows the elder Cassandra as she attempts to protect her famous sister's legacy and reflects on her choices, primarily through her attempts
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This year marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth. While pretty much everyone is at least in some way familiar with her works and the iconic characters she created, far fewer know much about her personal or family life. There's surprisingly little to know; one
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The streaming upheaval that initially rocked the U.S. entertainment landscape in 2014-2015 marked the beginning of the ongoing globalization of television. However, it took a while for that tidal wave to wash ashore across the pond, where places like France literally made laws trying to prevent Netflix from existing.
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Even if Jane Austen's untimely passing hadn't happened, it's highly doubtful she would have lived to see 2025; this year marks the late author's 250th birthday, and as befitting one of the two best selling female authors of all time in the
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It's been about six months since Amazon's Prime Video revealed it was greenlighting The Assassin from the production company run by the writing-directing team of brothers Harry and Jack Williams. The Williams have become a prolific outfit in recent years after the slow rollout of their
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Though Jane Austen's classic novels are primarily remembered for giving us beloved literary romances like Lizzie Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy or Eleanor Dashwood and Edward Ferrars, her stories also contain love stories of a different variety: The unshakeable bond between sisters. This is the relationship at the heart
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Jane Austen adaptations are a staple in the life of any Anglophile and, as such, we're rarely hurting for the chance to see the author's stories of love and manners depicted onscreen in some form or other. But as the world gears up to celebrate Austen&
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It took over two years for the newest adaptation of The Midwich Cuckoos to arrive in the U.S. after it aired and streamed on SkyMax in mid-2022, doubling the length of its title along the way to become The Midwich Cuckoos: Villiage of the Damned (possibly as a reminder
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Streamers Sundance Now and Acorn TV are joining forces to bring the seven-part British sci-fi horror series The Midwich Cuckoos to the U.S. just in time for spooky season. Based on the perennially popular 1957 John Wyndham novel of the same name, the show originally aired on U.K.