Lost In Austen

Genre

4 Part Time Travelling Period Drama made by Mammoth Screen for ITV

Writer Guy Andrews

Director Dan Zeff

Synopsis

Amanda Price is a frustrated romantic who lives for reading and adores the characters in her Jane Austen books. Then one day she discovers a gateway in her flat and ends up being transported to her favourite world, the world of Pride and Prejudice. But is the “true” story in danger of being thrown off track by her presence?

Tom Riley Role

Capt George Wickham

Captain Wickham enters the story as a dashing, charming and handsome officer of the miltia. His father was the manager of the Darcy estate, but Darcy detests him as he believes he squandered his share of the late Mr darcy's inheritance, and attempted to elope with Darcy's sister, Georgiana. Amanda believes she knows all about Wickham's treacherous and deceitful past, and immediately warns him to stay away from the Bennet family. Amanda knows he is not to be trusted, but their relationship develops into something that surprises both of them.

Filming details

The production shot in Yorkhire in October and November 2007. Some of Yorkshire's most stunning locations were used; including Bramham Park in Wetherby, Harewood House near Leeds, Oakwell Hall in Kirklees, the historic City of York, and Allerton Castle in North Yorkshire. Leeds City markets also doubled as a nineteenth-century London Hammersmith train station.

First Broadcast

The series began on Wednesday 3rd September 2008. Tom was in episodes 2 to 4.

On UK TV

Lost in Austen

Links

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