The life of Jane Austen – and the celebrated books she wrote – has been pored over hundreds of times, by millions of fans and scholars. And she needs no introduction: this is the mind that brought us ...

The cast and creators discuss the new BBC drama, coming to the U.S. on PBS in May, that looks at why Cassandra Austen burned her famous author sister Jane’s letters. By Georg Szalai Global Business ...

We love a good period drama and if you need the Bridgerton-shaped hole in your life filled then we have just the show. Miss Austen debuts on BBC One and iPlayer today (in fact all episodes are ...

The BBC released a trailer for upcoming drama series Miss Austen, with Keeley Hawes (Bodyguard, Line of Duty, I t’s A Sin) starring as Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra, on Tuesday and unveiled a Sunday, ...

Boston, MA - December 16, 2025: MASTERPIECE PBS has announced that alongside Bonnie Productions, it is developing Miss Austen Season 2. This newest season is largely based on Gill Hornby’s latest ...

With the new drama, plus Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Berlin Film Festival competition title Hot Milk and Miss Austen already under its belt, Bonnie has worked up notable credits in film and TV. It was ...

If I write, It is a truth universally acknowledged that to begin an essay with the words “It is a truth universally acknowledged” marks the writer out as a person of taste and good humor who has read ...

Miss Austen, which tells the story of the family life of Jane and Cassandra Austen, is eyeing a return. Masterpiece PBS is developing a second season of the series, which stars Keeley Hawes. The first ...

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Photographer: Robert Viglasky; Courtesy of Bonnie Productions and MASTERPIECE. For fans of Becoming Jane or Death Comes To Pemberley, there comes a new entry in the Austen canon. Like those stories, ...

Fans of English novelist Jane Austen rank among the most devoted viewers of Masterpiece, so series producers and some PBS stations are celebrating the 250th anniversary of her birth in ways that ...