Category: costume in cinema

…that’s TOO good to just go on the Upcoming Movies page:

1. Us Americans are getting to see the new production of Bleak House, Jan. 22 – Feb. 26, 2006 on Masterpiece Theatre (I always love that it’s theatRE);

2. BBC has commissioned Andrew Davies (BBC Pride & Prejudice writer among many others) to do a new miniseries version of Sense and Sensibility;

3. ITV is planning new versions of Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion — Davies is working on the Northanger Abbey script. 2 & 3 are of course only planned, which doesn’t make anything official, but we suckers-for-period-anything can hope.

From the Masterpiece Theatre newsletter: Coming in November! THE VIRGIN QUEEN

Sundays, November 13 + 20, 2005. Anne-Marie Duff stars as The Virgin Queen in a lavish new two-part drama based on the improbable rise and tumultuous reign of one of England’s greatest monarchs: Elizabeth I. The series explores the full sweep of Elizabeth’s life: from her days of fear as a potential victim of her sister, “Bloody” Mary ); through her great love affair with Robert Dudley; into her years of triumph over the Spanish Armada; and finally her old age and her last, enigmatic relationship with her young protege, the Earl of Essex.