Who's watching Pride and Prejudice right now?

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I am. And eating walnuts.

Lol - which version?

DD1 13 watched the KK one last week (which I love, although lots of people don't like it) and she immediately went on to read the novel too. This afternoon she watched the gorgeous Kate Beckinsale filming of "Emma" (eat your heart out Gwyneth Paltrow) and is now reading that. Hopefully this will be the beginning of a lifelong love affair.

The Keira Knightly one. My daughter is watching it with me and seems to love it. She wanted to stay home and watch it rather than going to Madagascar. I didn't object.

Good heavens above. Not the kk one. All that giggling and simpering and staring in mirrors and swinging in the garden. There's no kiss at the end. Darcy is miserable. Mr Collins is too short. Lydia goes missing and is found seconds later, no gravitas. Boooooooo!

BBC adaptation every time.

Sounds a lovely way of spending a Sunday afternoon. Says she, shut up on MN while dp and the girls watch the hideousness Of McCauley Culkin or whatever his name is, in "Home Alone".

Darcy is wonderful in the KK one. Can't stand the BBC one because of Alison Steadman: I also don't like the woman who plays Elizabeth in it - too dimply and simpery.

Tis true it's not a great version but the alternative was Madagascar.

Agree that the ending of the KK one is wrong though - we need more kissing instead of Donald Sutherland and his strange teeth!

I can't believe that anyone will ever top Andrew Davies's BBC adaptation. The best. Can't stand KK

How odd. I've been watching the bbc one with dd the last few days. I told her there was a film with Keira as well but I didn't like it as much.

We are about to watch the last episode but the penultimate one was my favourite, when she first sees Pemberley and Darcy emerges from the lake.

Jennifer Ehle is my favourite Elizabeth. Lydia, Mr Collins, Mr Bennett, Wickham, Bingley, all superior.

Alison Steadman's wrong but lends a good comedy element.

I quite liked the KK/darcy rain scene though.

Mr Collins and Lady Catherine de Burgh are good in the BBC one. Although old pudding face, Judy Dench, is very good as Lady C too.

Kept waiting for malnourished kk to come down with something. Or get washed away. Darcy was sulky.

Judy Dench is great and the tragedy of the friend having to marry Mr Collins is well done.

Darcy is simmering, not sulky!

I love the rainy bit too Guadalupe. Although I suppose it is a bit Bronte-ish rather than Austen-y.

I will concede that the Charlotte/Mr Collins bit was much better in the KK one. Charlotte and her family much better portrayed, as were their motives.

Judi Dench is superb anyway but needed a bigger part.

Yes, very Bronte.

Darcy was not simmering, he wasn't even lukewarm. He was wet though in most senses of the word.

I like Northanger Abbey.

Nope - you won't convince me re: Darcy. I really liked Matthew Mcwhatsit's playing of him.

The recent TV "Northanger Abbey"? It was brilliant. Unlike the godawful Billy Piper "Mansfield Park" and the dreadful "Persuasion".

My favourites are the older TV Persuasion and the Kate Beckinsale Emma, although of course I adore Alan Rickman and Kate Winslet in "Sense & Sensibility".

Ciaran Hinds. Phwoarr.

Oh and that dreadful, dreadful TV "S&S" where Willoughby looked like a pug. Maybe they didn't do "Persuasion" then? They've all faded into a sea of hideousness, except "Northanger Abbey".

You've all got fabulous memories. I like the Emma Thompson S&S. And I quite like the Gwynneth Paltrow Emma. And I remember, as a teenager, a preposterous Northanger Abbey where Catherine had visions of herself in a nightie running up hills.

Janeite, I agree with all of your other points. And yes the recent tv NA, although I do like the book very much.

The most recent S&S was dire. Eleanor actress had studied Emma Thompson too closely and Willoughby looked like he should have been at school. Veru pug like.

Yes. I didn't understand why they'd bothered making "S&S" as it was so obviously modelled on the Thompson version.

Has there ever been a decent version of "Mansfield Park"?

NFK - please try and get hold of the Kate Beckinsale "Emma" - it is vastly superior to the Gwynnie one. The girl playing Harriet Smith is just gorgeous in it. And then there's "Clueless" of course!

The KK one was a bit crap, but Mr McFadyen's Darcy was lurverly!