BBC AND PBS TO DO MISS AUSTEN RETURNS SERIES A FOLLOW UP TO MISS AUSTEN WITH KEELEY HAWES

  MISS AUSTEN RETURNS  

 A FOLLOW UP TO MISS AUSTEN TV SERIES

The same team will do the follow up

BBC and PBS are set to do a follow up series to their Miss Austen titled MISS AUSTEN RETURNS based on Gill Hornby's The Elopement novel. Keeley Hawes will probably return as Cassandra, Jane's sister in  the true story that happens later on from Miss Austen, around the 1820s, and within a wing of the family that involves Cassandra, as Deadline writes. But the past-tense years that the series will focus on will be ones that were highly creative for Jane when her novels were actually being published. Cassandra is carrying the flame in the present-tense part, and rather than burning letters and looking after Jane’s privacy as in the first series, this will be about an interpretation of Jane’s meaning and value.

BBC RELEASES TRAILER AND AIR DATE FOR MISS AUSTEN SERIES WITH KEELEY HAWES, PATSY FERRAN, MAX IRONS, ALFRED ENOCH, CALAM LYNCH

  MISS AUSTEN SERIES  

BBC RELEASES TRAILER AND AIR DATE

BBC has released trailer and February 2nd air date for their upcoming new mini series MISS AUSTEN which will also air on PBS in USA but from May 4th, marking 250 years since Austen's birth. The four part drama stars Keeley Hawes as Cassandra Austen, with Synnøve Karlsen, Patsy Ferran, Phyllis Logan, Max Irons, Alfred Enoch, Calam Lynch, Mirren Mack, Kevin McNally also in the cast. On PBS it will air   in May and you can see what you can expect if you check out the first trailer below the post released earlier this morning by the British broadcaster.

  THE DRAMA BEGINS IN 1830
many years after Jane has died. Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) rushes to visit Isabella (Rose Leslie), the niece of her long-dead fiancé, who is about to lose her home following her father’s death. Cassandra is ostensibly there to help Isabella, but her real motive is to find a hidden bundle of private letters which,in the wrong hands, she fears could destroy Jane’s reputation. On discovering them, Cassandra is overwhelmed as she is transported back to her youth. In flashback, we meet Young Cassy (Synnøve Karlsen) and Jane (Patsy Ferran) as they navigate the romantic infatuations, family feuds and dashed hopes which shaped their lives, and laid the foundations for Jane’s unforgettable stories. Cassandra’s re-evaluation of her past eventually leads her to find a way to guide Isabella towards the path of true happiness. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think.

 

SERIES TO EXPECT ON BBC IN 2025: FROM KING AND CONQUEROR, TO LOCKERBIE, MISS AUSTEN, LYNLEY AND SECOND SEASONS OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, GOLD AND TEN POUND POMS

   BBC 2025 TV SERIES   

KINGS, QUEENS, EARLS AND DUKES

After airing the first season two years ago, BBC Two will also air the second season of MARIE ANTOINETTE series later this year. Emilia Schüle as Marie, and Louis Cunningham as the king of France, Louis XVI, return to their roles. At the height of their power, while Marie Antoinette and Louis face an unprecedented financial crisis, the incessant attacks of Provence and Chartres against the royal couple stir up the hatred of the nobles while disastrous consequences are looming with infamous Affair of the Diamond Necklace incident. From Versailles to the Palais-Royal, the revolt rumbles… Meanwhile, BBC One has acquired LYNLEY series with Leo Suter playing the famous detective. They will also have TOWARDS ZERO latest Agatha Christie adaptation with Oliver Jackson Cohen and Matthew Rhys, THE GOLD season two with Hugh Bonneville, Tom Cullen returning to the roles of the gold robbers. Australia set TEN POUND POMS will also return with the second season, while Keeley Hawes will lead MISS AUSTEN costume drama on Jane Austen's sister. At some point during the year BBC will also launch KING AND CONQUEROR epic drama with James Norton and Nicholai Coster Waldau as Harold Earl of Wessex and William, duke of Normandy. Timothy Spall will lead detective drama DEATH VALLEY, while Connor Swindells will lead BBC's version of LOCKERBIE disaster in co production with Netflix.

BBC RELEASES NEW IMAGES FROM MISS AUSTEN SERIES WITH KEELEY HAWES, PATSY FERRAN, MAX IRONS, ALFRED ENOCH, CALAM LYNCH

  MISS AUSTEN SERIES  

BBC RELEASES BRAND NEW IMAGES

BBC has released new images from their upcoming new mini series MISS AUSTEN which will arrive sometime next year and will also air on PBS in USA marking 250 years since Austen's birth. The four part drama stars Keeley Hawes as Cassandra Austen, with Synnøve Karlsen, Patsy Ferran, Phyllis Logan, Max Irons, Alfred Enoch, Calam Lynch, Mirren Mack, Kevin McNally also in the cast. On PBS it will air in May and you can see glimpses of the new series down in the trailer for PBS Masterpiece spring 2025 offer of new shows.

 

  THE DRAMA BEGINS IN 1830
many years after Jane has died. Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) rushes to visit Isabella (Rose Leslie), the niece of her long-dead fiancé, who is about to lose her home following her father’s death. Cassandra is ostensibly there to help Isabella, but her real motive is to find a hidden bundle of private letters which,in the wrong hands, she fears could destroy Jane’s reputation. On discovering them, Cassandra is overwhelmed as she is transported back to her youth. In flashback, we meet Young Cassy (Synnøve Karlsen) and Jane (Patsy Ferran) as they navigate the romantic infatuations, family feuds and dashed hopes which shaped their lives, and laid the foundations for Jane’s unforgettable stories. Cassandra’s re-evaluation of her past eventually leads her to find a way to guide Isabella towards the path of true happiness.

 

HOLLYWOOD SPY'S GUIDE THROUGH ALL THE BEST NEW TV SERIES LAUNCHING AUTUMN 2024 ON THE SMALL SCREENS

 AUTUMN TV SCHEDULE 

NEW SEPTEMBER 2024 TV SERIES

Unlike some previous seasons, this one has a very bleak start, I think we are finally feeling the consequences of the actors' strike. So not much to report when it comes to new series this September. Netflix will launch THE PERFECT COUPLE on September 5th with Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber as a rich family that unravels after a body washes up right outside their family home. Channel 5 has set September 9th date for the second season of THE TEACHER series about a teacher whose pupil goes missing. Apple TV is launching their fashion house set series LA MAISON September 20th with Lambert Wilson as the head of the house whose rival wants to take it from him. Over in Britain ITV will air their mini series PLAYING NICE with James Norton and Niamh Algar as one of two couples who discover their toddlers were switched at birth. I hear it will start September 19th, while BBC will air their NIGHTSLEEPER series September 15th. This real-time thriller is set on a runaway sleeper train travelling from Glasgow to London.

NEW OCTOBER TV SERIES

October is, meanwhile, stuffed with newbies starting October 2nd when Australian series LAST DAYS OF THE SPACE AGE starts set at the moment when American space station Skylab crash lands on earth just outside an Australian city, as it is gearing up to host the Miss Universe pageant. October 10th brings TEACUP to Peacock. Yvonne Strahovski and Scott Speedman lead a group of people desperately trying to grapple with forces far beyond their control. A day after Apple TV has Cate Blanchett in DISCLAIMER in which she plays a journalist who has the tables turned on her by a mysterious novel, written by Kevin Kline, which reveals her darkest secrets. October 18th brings RIVALS to Disney Plus and Hulu, with Aidan Turner, David Tennant in the story about the rise of independent television in 1980s England, the rise filled with sex, scandals and battles for power. October 24th brings TERRITORY to Netflix led by Anna Torv and Sam Corlett. When a massive cattle station lacks an heir, Australia's rival factions see a chance to seize control. The land grabs threaten to destroy the declining dynasty. A day after that NAUTILUS epic adventure series hits Prime Video following Shazad Latif's Captain Nemo and his crew. 

 

NEW MULTICAMERA SITCOMS OF OCTOBER

October also brings us a number of new multicamera sitcoms which are experiencing a revival this season. On the 17th CBS launches GEORGIE AND MANDY'S FIRST MARRIAGE which will see Montana Jordan and Emily Osment reprise their roles from Young Sheldon in a prequel series. Reba is back on television October 18th as an owner of her own bar in HAPPY'S PLACE, a new sitcom that also stars Melissa Peterman. CBS also has POPPA'S PLACE starting October 21st with Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr., as a legendary talk show host named Poppa and his dreamer son.

 

NEW AUTUMN SERIES WITH NO DATE SET

There are also new series that will arrive this Autumn but we still have no dates for them. HBO and Sky will launch DUNE: PROPHECY sometime in November with Emily Watson and Olivia Williams as two sisters who found a mysterious sect Bene Geserit in order to protect the galaxy. PBS and BBC will probably bring us Keeley Hawes in MISS AUSTEN mini series about Jane Austen's sister, Europe will follow the Battle of Belgrade in RISE OF THE RAVEN epic series about the fearless warrior Janos Hunyadi who defeated the Ottoman Army and defended Europe in 1456. Netflix will probably give us A 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE based on the famous classic and set in the timeless town of Macondo, where seven generations of the Buendía family navigate love, oblivion and the inescapability of their past and their fate. Over in UK Channel 5 is bringing  HARDACRES epic drama about a working class family in 1890s Yorkshire who move from a grimy fish dock to a vast country estate, and THE WIVES mini series about three sisters in law, who investigate the murder of a woman who was married to the fourth brother of their husbands and who appears at their holiday resort with a new wife. Over in France, period set series DANGEROUS FRIENDSHIP about the friendship between Anne queen of France and duchess de Chevreuse should, according to rumours, arrive sometime in September or October. I imagine that Netflix could also finally stream Italian costume drama IL GATTOPARDO about a 19th-century Sicilian aristocratic family that gets caught up in the changing sociopolitical times.

SEE KEELEY HAWES AS JANE AUSTEN'S SISTER IN MISS AUSTEN PERIOD SET SERIES FROM PBS MASTERPIECE

  MISS AUSTEN TV SERIES  

FIRST IMAGE WITH KEELEY HAWES

A year ago I told you that PBS Masterpiece is preparing mini series MISS AUSTEN and now we have the first image with Keeley Hawes as Jane Austen's sister Cassandra who burned Jane’s letters after her death. Rose Leslie plays Cassandra’s friend Isabella, who is about to lose her home after her father’s death. Cassandra wants to help her, but she also wants to find a stash of her late sister Jane’s private letters that could ruin Jane’s reputation if they came out.  Finding a way to guide Isabella towards true happiness, Cassandra is finally able to understand and celebrate the sacrifices she chose to make for her sister, Jane. Jessica Hynes, Alfred Enoch, Calam Lynch, Phyllis Logan, Kevin McNally and Max Irons also star. The four part drama will also air on BBC in UK.

SEE SHAWN MENDES AS LYLE, LYLE CROCODILE IN DELIGHTFUL LIVE ACTION ADAPTATION TRAILER! PBS MASTERPIECE MAKING MINI TV SERIES MISS AUSTEN ON JANE AUSTEN AND HER SISTER CASSANDRA

 PBS TO MAKE MISS AUSTEN 

SERIES ON JANE AUSTEN'S LIFE

It will be a four episode mini series

PBS Masterpiece has announced that they will turn Gill Hornby's novel MISS AUSTEN into a four part mini series to be penned by Andrea Gibb. The book is Hornby’s third novel and centres on the lives and loves of Jane Austen and her sister Cassandra. It delves into why Cassandra burned a treasure trove of letters written by her sister, Jane – an act of destruction that has troubled academics and Austen fans for centuries. It will be a moving, revealing and often hilarious story of love, loss and sisterhood! Hornby's latest Regency novel Godmersham Park is, meanwhile, out tomorrow, and it is about a governess who meets Jane Austen and becomes friends with her while working for her family. 

  LYLE, LYLE CROCODILE  

TRAILER WITH SHAWN MENDES

And it is the cutest thing you will see today: the first trailer for LYLE, LYLE CROCODILE live action movie adaptation which arrives October 7th with Shawn Mendes lending the voice to the main hero. When the Primm family moves to New York City, their young son Josh struggles to adapt to his new school and new friends. All of that changes when he discovers Lyle, a singing crocodile who loves baths, caviar, and great music, living in the attic of his new home. The two become fast friends, but when Lyle’s existence is threatened by evil neighbor Mr. Grumps, the Primm’s must band together with Lyle’s charismatic owner, Hector P. Valenti (Javier Bardem), to show the world that family can come from the most unexpected places, and there’s nothing wrong with a big singing crocodile with an even bigger personality! The amazing The Greatest Showman team has written songs for this one as well.