Lost In Austen (DVD)

if you are a fan of jane austen's pride and prejudice, you will absolutely love this! teh setting is as you would expect, classic austen large manor houses, with grounds etc. but the series begins in 2008 with a young 20-something woman questioning her relationship with her beer-drinking boyfriend. after another fight about commitment with him, she sinks back to read her pride and prejudice, and then swaps places with lizzie bennett. she is transported to the beginning of the novel, and as she attempts to keep the action following the the novel, she accidently gets engaged to collins, bigham falls in love with her, and she argues constantly with darcey. the jokes are ...  Read the complete review

If you missed this series when it was on television, it's well worth buying the video as it easily merits more than one look. It's based on Jane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice, so it helps if you have read it first then you'll then appreciate some of the more 'in' jokes. However, it doesn't matter if you don't. Even if you haven't read the book, this is still very entertaining and accessible. This is a series based around a similar concept to Life on Mars: a modern day character is flung unexpectedly into a past that didn't really exist, doesn't believe they are truly there, so takes none of it seriously. Amanda Price (Jemima Rooper) ...  Read the complete review

will clearly state now that I am not a Jane Austen fan. So why on earth would I bother to watch a TV drama which clearly has a basis around one of her novels. I have thought about this and have still not come up with the reason as to why the advert caught my attention. I already knew that it would be put onto our screen thanks to an introduction in a copy of Radio Times. I initially thought it was completely daft. The concept is completely different from other period dramas which have become strangely popular at the moment. That a devoted fan of Jane Austen could simply fall into the middle of one of her stories-how on earth could that turn out to be any good? I had ...  Read the complete review

It's like watching Gillian Anderson play Lady Dedlock in Bleak House, you didn't think it was going to work but it did! If you missed it on BBC earlier this year it's worth amazons £7.47 price tag twice. It's starts off with Amanda Price played by Jemima Rooper in her normal day routine coming home on the bus completely lost her battered copy of Pride and Prejudice. She settles down in her shared flat to, hopefully, get lost in her book and the romance of old england when her boyfriend turns up, drunk, and proposes to her with a beer can pull. She goes to the bathroom to find none other than Ms.Bennet in her bath, after which she gets transported into her ...  Read the complete review

I'm a great fan of Austen and a bit of a purist so I wasn't sure if I'd like Lost in Austen. This TV series tells the story of Amanda Price, a modern girl looking for romance and disillusioned with her drunken boyfriend. She constantly reads Pride and Prejudice to escape. Then one evening,she finds Elizabeth Bennet (the heroine of Pride and Prejudice) in her bath. They swap places and Amanda finds herself trapped in Lizzy's world, trying to keep Jane Austen's story in line! If you're looking for a film really true to Austen's story, then this isn't the film. Some fans might think it's sacreligious, and they're probably right. But it is fantastic fun! I know ...  Read the complete review