Regency Film and Television: Four Regency Series to Binge

You got through all of Season 2 of Bridgerton, and you are wanting more drama, empire waists, and Regency manners.  Here is a list of four of our favorite Regency or Regency adjacent series to binge.

Lost in Austen

Amanda, an ardent Jane Austen fan, lives in present day London with her boyfriend Michael, until she finds she’s swapped places with Austen’s fictional creation Elizabeth Bennet.

This 2008 series features four episodes.

 

 

Emma

Emma Woodhouse seems to be perfectly content, to have a loving father for whom she cares, friends, and a home. But Emma has a terrible habit: matchmaking. She cannot resist finding suitors for her friends, most of all Harriet Smith. Emma is desperate for Harriet to find happiness, but every suitor she finds for her friend ends up attracted to Emma. But is Emma so focused on Harriet’s happiness that she is not considering her own happiness in love?

This 2009 BBC Mini Series features 4 episodes.

Sanditon

This BBC Adaption of an unfinished Jane Austen novel features Charlotte Heywood, a spirited and impulsive woman, who moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a seaside resort.

Two seasons beginning in 2019, this was well loved by fans and critics.

 

 

 

Death Comes to Pemberley

Elizabeth and Darcy, now six years married, are preparing for their annual ball when festivities are brought to an abrupt halt. An adaptation of PD James’s homage to Pride and Prejudice.

This 2013 mini series brings mystery and murder to the Regency.

 

 

 

No time for a series, but still want a fix?  Check out our lists of 80s and 90s films and films from the 00s.

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