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Indirect spin-off from the Jane Austen TV/films starting with 1995 Colin Firth's Pride and Prejudice, and constricted by the small number of supposed Austen books. (There was a 1980 BBC precursor, adapted by Fay Weldon, which received an award for costume design. And a Bollywood version, Bride and Prejudice more recently).
Now more than ten years old, I'm guessing the afterlife of DVDs has kept it in suspended animation. The DVDs include extras. I thought the acting was very good—attributable perhaps to digital cameras being cheap to re-use, with no cutting-room floor necessary, and interminable retakes permitting nuances of nuances. [Pause to look at names–] The scriptwriter was/is Guy Andrews. Mr Bennet is Hugh Bonneville, and Mrs Bennet Alex Kingston. She is impeccably catted out by Christina Cole, sister of amiable Tom Mison, but in turn recovers her verbal command to confront Amanda Price/Jemima Rooper, a modern woman who works at a Building Society and likes Pride and Prejudice (1813, but hers is a Pelican edition paperback with cover-design photo). She is paid £27,000 a year to the surprise of relatively uninflated 1800 people.
A time machine mixup allows AP and EB to change times and places; fortunately for the plot AP doesn't think of jamming the temporal portal open. The plot goes amusingly awry, though much is retained, for example the almost-unoccupied huge houses (extras being expensive), Mr Bennet's non-ownership of 'his' house, and Mr Collins, who remains awful, a difficult thing to act, I imagine. Hammersmith though is changed.
From a revisionist point of view it seems possible that the future will reshape 'Jane Austen' and 'her' books. Note that Cromwell's Jewish intrusion (mid-1600s) led to the 1700s in Britain being a process of digestion by fraud, changing many things. Many 18th-century houses, marriages and so on were Jewish events. By the time of the books by 'A Lady of Quality', and after the Rothschild coup after Waterloo, people would have talked about it. In the same way, at the time of 'Shakespeare', the Reformation was recent, but inexplicably absent from Will S.
The East India Company is another missing jigsaw piece.
I recommend Nicholas Ennos's Jane Austen for seekers after truth. Poor Jane seems to have been poisoned. Buy his book.
My review said: There's a certain horrifying fascination in reading comments by women on Jane Austen. I wonder if whites are genetically inclined to live in, or at least imagine they are in, fantasies and dreamworlds. Perhaps it's something to do with long dark nights in northern Europe: hobbies, obsessions, indoor activities, repetitions, survival necessities for some, escapism for others. I thought that was quite good.
RW 24 Nov 2019