Alert Janeite Sylvia M. wrote to tell us that Company Pictures has a page on their Web site for the upcoming television adaptation of MANSFIELD PARK. The site says that the film will be 90 minutes long and lists the producers: Suzan Harrison, George Faber (who was one of the producers of P2), and Charles Pattinson.

Following Sylvia’s example, we checked the Clerkenwell Films site looking for some info on the upcoming production of PERSUASION, but found nothing more than a news announcement. The item did confirm that the film will be a two-hour television adaptation.

Octagon Films, which is working on both BECOMING JANE and the new NORTHANGER ABBEY film, does not seem to have a Web site. Hmph.

We also heard from Laura Diann, who created the Northanger Abbey Film Page and also maintains the online magazine at the JA Centre at Bath. She heard from a young actress named Emma McMorrow who tried out for the role of Catherine Morland but did not get it; undaunted, Miss McMorrow is trying out for Marianne Dashwood in S&S3. If Miss McMorrow is reading this and would like to contact us directly with news and gossip about the casting of the various films, she may click Contact over to the right!

The news comes to us slowly….