Which house was filmed as Pemberley in the BBC TV adaptation of 'Pride and Prejudice'?
Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV series) at 99 in the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century, which the BFI attributed to its "managing to combine faithfulness to the novel with a freshness that appealed across the generations". "Radio Times" included the serial in their list of "40 greatest TV programmes ever made" in 2003. It was also named by "Entertainment Weekly" as one of the 20 best miniseries of all time. In 2007, the UK Film Council declared "Pride and Prejudice" one of the television dramas that have become "virtual brochures" for British history and society. Lyme Hall, Cheshire, which had served as
Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV series) adapt "Pride and Prejudice", one of their favourite books, for television. Birtwistle in particular felt that a new adaptation on film would serve the drama better than the previous videotaped "Pride and Prejudice" television adaptations, which looked too "undernourished" and "unpoetic". The needs of TV scheduling forced Davies to change his original plan of a five-episode adaptation to six. Birtwistle and Davies then offered the first three scripts to ITV in late 1986 to build on the guaranteed BBC audience, but the recent TV adaptation led to a delay. When ITV announced its renewed interest in 1993, Michael Wearing of