You know Sara,

We all enjoy reading your blog. I for one do not want it ever to feel for you that we are nagging you for excerpts. I will wait patiently.

Cynthia in Florida

Thanks for the link, Sara. Hmmm. maybe the filmakers figure that not everyone has seen the most recent BBC adaptation. Though given that was about 6 hours in length, I wonder how much will be watered down for the movie. Kiera Knightly seems a little too pretty but guess one has to put bums on seats. I thought it was funny that the filmakers felt they had to say the it was written by "Jane Austen, beloved author of Emma and Sense and sensibility" ... talking about dumbing down the audience. Having said all that though, I'll also probably be lining up to see it.

I'd love to see an extract as well but would also be happy to wait till the book actually comes out.

Oh, I'll be in line -- but possibly clutching my BBC DVD for comfort.

The guy playing Mr. Darcy is unknown to me too... a quick trip to IMDB doesn't tell me much except that clearly, I should have been watching MI-5.

From my pals across the pond, they say the new adaptation is an abomination. I will probably see it and then refrain from telling them...Just because I love Kira Knightly...(But no one is Darcy but Colin Firth! aApparently the guy they cast in this one is a soaps actor over there.)

Two Nicoles? Isn't one much too skinny former Mrs. Cruies enough? I don't hate her, but does she have to set the bar so high??? I thought she was really "Cute" in Bewitched, I almost liked her but shhh...don't tell anyone!

Have to comment here - while I doubt a movie-length adaptation of Pride & Prejudice could ever match the BBC series, I am sure Mathew MacFadyen will play a very good part as Mr. Darcy.
He is a very good stage actor and has been seen on UK television in several dramas (not soap operas) and tv series, but I think you might get more of an idea of his acting ability by watching the film In My Father's Den (adapted from the Maurice Gee novel of the same name).
I just can't imagine Keira Knightley as Elizabeth though - she seems a little young for the part.

Thanks for the clarification Allison! I thought they were the same thing!

yipe, I also thought you said "serial dramas" reading would really help. I thought I read somewhere that he was on a soaptype show. Thanks again for the clearing up!

hey Kelley - that would be a whole new and interesting debate: when is a tv drama a soap opera?
Having been raised in the UK, I tend to think of soaps as those tv dramas which have been broadcasting several episodes per week for years.

Sara - by the way, I'm really loving Deadwood. We're still on the first season here in NZ and hopefully we'll get the second as well.

Hi Allison, that is an interesting question actually, because "they" are now showing Beverly Hills 90210 on the Soap Opera channel on Satelite tv and digetal cable, Which I find odd, because I never thought of it as a Soap.

I think your definition is more correct, Soap Opras used to be sponsored by Soap companies. Which is why they are called "Soaps" But...I think now, "They" are considering any TV show with a flare for the extra dramatic a Soap. There may be a length of time on the air that would now constitute a show as a "Soap Opera" Like ER which has gone into its 12th season I think...Very good question! I'll have to think on it but that is my initial response.