Everyone else keeps going after they used up all the material in Season 1, why can't PBS?
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It's a dark time for your local PBS stations, as the full force of the Federal Government's defunding of public broadcasting, referred to as "rescission," will hit starting October 1, 2025. Already, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has announced it will shutter its operations,
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The 250th anniversary celebration of Jane Austen's birth in December continues to be a central focal point for the entertainment industry in 2025. Thus far, we've had a feature film, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, and the PBS series Miss Austen. Still to come: The Other
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As it must, everything in Miss Austen turns out well in the end. Well, for a given value of "okay" at any rate. Cassandra commits some literary vandalism, Jane's legacy is preserved, and we're given an explanation for why one of those things needed
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The viewing experience of Miss Austen often feels like two completely different shows fighting under a blanket. There's the more pedestrian primary narrative, which follows the elder Cassandra as she attempts to protect her famous sister's legacy and reflects on her choices, primarily through her attempts
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This year marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth. While pretty much everyone is at least in some way familiar with her works and the iconic characters she created, far fewer know much about her personal or family life. There's surprisingly little to know; one
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The end of the spring is just around the corner, and the PBS Sunday series lineup, which premiered in early spring, is starting to wrap up. The Wolf Hall sequel, Wolf Hall: The Mirror & the Light, concludes in the final week of April, though viewers should expect local stations
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Even if Jane Austen's untimely passing hadn't happened, it's highly doubtful she would have lived to see 2025; this year marks the late author's 250th birthday, and as befitting one of the two best selling female authors of all time in the
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Though Jane Austen's classic novels are primarily remembered for giving us beloved literary romances like Lizzie Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy or Eleanor Dashwood and Edward Ferrars, her stories also contain love stories of a different variety: The unshakeable bond between sisters. This is the relationship at the heart
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As another television year fades to black, PBS stations close the book on 2024, a year that included releases for both new and existing series. From unexpected treats like The Marlow Murder Club and Gemma Arterton’s grounding performance in Funny Woman to a satisfying ending to Moonflower Murders, there
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Jane Austen adaptations are a staple in the life of any Anglophile and, as such, we're rarely hurting for the chance to see the author's stories of love and manners depicted onscreen in some form or other. But as the world gears up to celebrate Austen&
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Masterpiece gave a rundown of the 2024 schedule of British shows coming to PBS on Sunday nights at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour, starting with March 2024's Nolly, and mentioning several anticipated titles, including Moonflower Murders. However, when it came to two of the most significant
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PBS first announced Masterpiece was working on an adaptation of Gil Hornsby's novel Miss Austen in the summer of 2022, not long after the second season of Sanditon returned. Jane Austen has been a staple of PBS since it first premiered as a network and Masterpiece in particular,