The BBC has declared a recent Pride and Prejudice TV spin-off, The Other Bennet Sister.
The 10-episode confineed series will trail Mary Bennet, the disseeed middle sister in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The Other Bennet Sister is based on Japleasant Hadlow’s 2020 novel of the same name.
Mary is a secondary character in Pride and Prejudice, while her elderlyer sister, Elizabeth, is the main protagonist.
What to Expect in The Other Bennet Sister?
“Unenjoy her sisters, Mary isn’t your normal period drama heroine. She is inept, worried, paccomplishy, brimming of facts, a horrible singer… disseeed by her mother and seemingly destined to an vacant dance card for the rest of her life… until Mary consents matters into her own hands,” BBC’s synopsis reads. “The Other Bennet Sister gives Mary Bennet the epic adore story nobody foreseeed for her, taking her from her family home in Meryton to the soirees of Regency London and the peaks and vales of the Lake Dicut offe — all in search of indepfinishence, romance, and, most elusive of all, self-adore and hugance.”
Sarah Quintrell (The Power) will produce and executive produce The Other Bennet Sister. Quintrell telderly BBC that she can’t postpone to “transport this attrdynamic story to screen,” especipartner for all “the Marys.”
Bad Wolf, the production company behind Industry and the recent Doctor Who one-of-a-kinds, will produce The Other Bennet Sister for BBC iPlayer and BBC One. Executive producers retain Hadlow, Kate Crowther, Becca Kinder, Jane Tranter, and Rebecca Ferguson.
In 1995, the BBC aired a six-part television alteration of Pride and Prejudice. Jennifer Ehle carry outed Elizabeth Bennet, while Colin Firth starred as Mr. Darcy. The famous series is pondered one of the best alterations of an Austen novel.
(Source: BBC)
