Fanny Price (Billie Piper, Doctor Who, The Ruby in the Smoke) is plucked from poverty as a child and taken to live at stately Mansfield Park, surrounded by entitled and vain cousins – except for her one confidant, Edmund Bertram (Blake Ritson, Inspector Lynley Mysteries). Jemma Redgrave (Bramwell) also stars in Jane Austen's story of status, satire, and romance.
Based on the life and letters of Jane Austen, Miss Austen Regrets tells the story of the novelist's final years, examining why, despite setting the standard for romantic fiction, she died having never married or met her own Mr. Darcy. Starring Olivia Williams (Rushmore) and Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey).
Acclaimed British actress Julia McKenzie (Cranford) takes over the iconic role of Agatha Christie's spinster sleuth Miss Marple, who solves four new mysteries with a gentle manner and shrewd intellect: A Pocket Full of Rye, Murder is Easy, They Do It With Mirrors, and Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?
Julia McKenzie is back in the role of Agatha Christie’s spinster sleuth, pursuing new crimes and dark occurrences in The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, The Secret of Chimneys, and The Blue Geranium, featuring appearances by Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) and Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous).
Miss Marple returns in The Pale Horse, based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Fair is foul and foul is fair in the hamlet of Much Deeping, where the Pale Horse Inn is run by a trio of entrepreneurial witches, and where Miss Marple (Julia McKenzie, Cranford) arrives to pursue the murderer of an old friend.
Jeremy Piven (Entourage) stars as a wheeling-dealing American who shows early 1900s Londoners how to shop. Based on the life of colorful retail magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge, the new eight-part series is created by Emmy® Award-winning writer Andrew Davies (Pride and Prejudice, Bleak House).
Based on the true story of writer Rudyard Kipling's underage and hopelessly myopic son, My Boy Jack tells of a nation at war and a youth desperate to join it. Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter films, David Copperfield), Kim Cattrall (Any Human Heart), and David Haig (The 39 Steps) star in this intimate portrait of one family's complex and divided experience of World War I.
In a new adaptation of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens's psychological thriller of passion and betrayal, Matthew Rhys (Brothers & Sisters) plays the tormented choirmaster John Jasper.