Lost In Austen

[Carole]

I absolutely loved it! it was a real hoot. Totally daft, but who cares? Life on Mars was totally daft as well but totally brilliant and it's just like that :D :D :D

[bev]

I missed it, didnt realise until 10 last night! Do ITV have an iplayer equivalent?

[Carole]

http://www.itv.com/CatchUp/default.html

It's really good fun - it doesn't take itself seriously. I wish I'd recorded it now, it's real cheer-up TV :D

[Princess Leia]

Russ pointed it out to me, thinking I'd like it - I read the write-up in the Radio Times and decided it would be naff, so watched Who Do You Think You Are instead.

Having seen some clips and heard some reviews this morning, I kind of wish I'd watched it ..

[Lucia]

Oh dear - I absolutely hated it - I felt I had to watch the entire first episode to confirm my worst fears, but I won't be watching any more - if the heroine with the horrible 'helmet' hairstyle was so steeped in the 'canon', surely she would have made an effort to fit in more?
And Darcy looked constipated.

[WombleButter]

ITV do have an i player type thing, i'm pretty sure of it.
:cheerleader:

[bev]

http://www.itv.com/CatchUp/default.html

It's really good fun - it doesn't take itself seriously. I wish I'd recorded it now, it's real cheer-up TV :D

Thanks for that, I will watch this evening:star:

[TinaB]

not sure what I thought really, but I agree she should make more of an effort to fit it... am looking forward to next week though, so I must have liked it :lol: :dunno:

[Carole]

Well I loved it :lol:, and I reckon Jane Austen would have as well - she had really wicked, sarcastic sense of humour.

Of course if she'd made more of an effort to fit it, it wouldn't have been so funny.... it really is like Life on Mars, you have to just go along with it all.

[Susie]

I enjoyed it, thought it was a fun easy to watch progaramme.

[capricciosababs]

we missed the first ten or fifteen mins of the first episode - so was confused as to how it all started - please will somone fill me in on the story from the start? thanks - ps think jane austen wouldve had a jolly good laugh and seen the fun side of it though !

[Carole]

You can watch it again here http://www.itv.com/CatchUp/default.html but basically she finds Lizzie Bennet in her bathroom and there's a door at the back that connects into the world of the book - a bit like the Wardrobe in Narnia!

Some of the language apart, I'm sure Jane Austen would have loved it as well.

[TinaB]

how wrong it is all going... do you suppose she is merely dreaming the whole the thing???

[4paws]

Never thought of that, bet she is just dreaming!

[jan]

I missed last weeks, as I thought it was just another classic, but watched this weeks, , quite amusing.

[jeni]

addicted already.. i was in hysterics when he said

"oh ... there are ladies who punt from the Cambridge end then?"

[Carole]

It's the best laugh I have all week :lol: and Mr Collins ......... EUUUGHHHHHH!!!!!!!! HOW REPULSIVE!!! I wonder what the actor's like in real life?

It's very clever as well, twisting the story around - I have no idea where it's all going to end up.

[TinaB]

don't mince your words Carole :lol:

he was disgusting though wasn't he :puke: poor Jane!!!

[Carole]

I don't want to get technical on this but even if she is just dreaming it all I'm not sure that it's yet been scientifically proved that time travel is possible ... and even it it was, weren't the characters in Pride and Prejudice figments of Jane Austen's imagination anyway? ..... :whistling:

[bev]

Imissed the first one and couldn't get my computer downstairs to stream it quick enough on Catchup, never mind. Did see last nights though, must agree Mr Collins and his mannerisms :puke::puke:. Poor Jane. I am enjoying this for what it is, probably will dig out BBCs version to watch again too.

[jeni]

yes have been discussing it with my friends and i am shocked and ashamed to say that most of them

a) have never even read/seen Pride and Prejudice

b) don't know who Mr Darcy is!!!!

[DizzyJenni]

Carl wouldnt let me watch it :( Boo hoo! Will catch up online!

[Carole]

Loved it last night ... it's as mad as a box full of frogs - brilliant!