Is PBS cheating?

[rsadelle]

PBS has been airing The Complete Jane Austen, a series of movies of Jane Austen novels, and one movie about Jane Austen's life, which seems to be in these days. So far, the movies have all been original to the series. I saw the teaser for Pride and Prejudice last week and thought, "Huh. He wants to be Colin Firth." Now I'm watching it, and, no, he doesn't want to be Colin Firth. He is Colin Firth. Instead of producing a new film version, they're showing the infamous miniseries with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. On the one hand, this means I can take it off my Netflix queue (er, this is the part where I confess that I've never seen it, although I have seen at least two other versions). On the other hand, it seems like cheating not to make a new version of this too.

Comments

[allegram.livejournal.com]

Course it was originally made for tv by the BBC and A&E, I personally don't feel it's cheating since, you know, PBS usually shows shows made by the BBC...

Plus since it's the best P&P I've seen yet, I heartily approve of it getting tons of play!

[rsadelle]

Hmm. I'm inclined to think it's cheating because everything else they're showing was made especially for this series.

I won't quite see all of this version - without checking the schedule, I set my VCR to tape for an hour and half, which is what the other ones are, but they're showing this in two-hour blocks, so I missed the last half hour of the first part. Oh well.