'Miss Austen Returns' Rumored for Season 2

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 Bennet Sister, Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius, and a new adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. However, apparently, one of these limited series may be a whole lot less limited and expand to a second season to air post-Austen Semiquincentennial, as Christine Langan, the head of Bonnie Productions, told Deadline that the company is working on a sequel: Miss Austen Returns.

To clarify, this is not an official announcement of a second season being commissioned. The article mentions that it is currently assumed Masterpiece will be on board as a co-producer with Bonnie, as it was with Season 1; however, that is in no way a given at this time, and should not be taken for granted. (We reached out to Masterpiece for comment but did not hear back by press time.)

What the interview actually indicates is that Langan's company is in the preparatory stages of making a sequel. According to Deadline, Keeley Hawes has signed on to reprise her role as Cassandra Austen, if this project gets off the ground, as have "other key cast members." More importantly, writer Andrea Gibb, who adapted the first season from Gill Hornby's best-selling book of the same name, is currently penning scripts. Gibb used up all the material from Hornby's book in the first season, but that's ok, since in the interim, he has written a sequel, The Elopement, which happened to hit bookshelves the week after Miss Austen concluded its PBS run.