The Jane Austen Season The Jane Austen Season The Jane Austen Season is a British television series of dramas based on novels by Jane Austen. The season began on ITV at 9:00 p.m. on Sunday 18 March 2007, with "Mansfield Park". The following week, "Northanger Abbey" was aired. The season ended with the airing of "Persuasion" on Sunday 1 April 2007. A repeat of the 1996 feature-length film "Emma" was broadcast on Friday 6 April 2007. The combined ITV and BBC series was shown in the United States by the PBS Masterpiece Theatre drama anthology television series from January through March 2008. The following
Jane Austen in popular culture read Austen's novels all over the world, making Austen films into the most desirable of films, the "premier pre-sold product". Furthermore, Sadoff noted that Austen films are popular with a female audience that ranges in age from teenage girls to middle-aged women, instead of appealing to a narrow demographic. Sadoff wrote the most recent adaptions of Austen were done in a way that was calculated to appeal to young women. Sadoff used as examples the 2005 version of "Pride and Prejudice" starring Keira Knightley, which brought "swashbuckler girlfriend sex appeal and postfeminist agency" to Austen, and "Becoming Jane" starring Anne