Underplayed Gems

Lost in Austen (2008)

Lost in Austen poster
Directed by
Dan Zeff
Genre
romance television series
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 4 episodes
Rated
14+
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 98 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

A modern London woman named Amanda finds a portal in her bathroom that leads into the world of Pride and Prejudice. She joins the Bennet family and accidentally messes up the story.

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What happens

Lost in Austen is a four-part 2008 British television series for the ITV network, written by Guy Andrews as a fantasy adaptation of the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Amanda, a young woman living in modern London, enters the plot of the novel through a portal in her bathroom, to join the Bennet family and affect events, generally disastrously. In December 2009 the show was placed at 48 in "The Top 50 TV Shows of the Noughties", a list published in The Times. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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