Sue Birtwistle

A making of featurette about the translation of the classic Jane Austen-novel into a screenplay, filled with interviews with the director, the screenwriter, leading make up, costume and others.

Scoop is a 1987 TV film directed by Gavin Millar, adapted by William Boyd from the 1938 satirical novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh. It was produced by Sue Birtwistle with executive producers Nick Elliott and Patrick Garland. Original music was made by Stanley Myers. The story is about a reporter sent to Ishmaelia (a fictional African state) by accident.

A bright, pretty and determined young lady named Anna Lee quits the police department in search of adventure, and joins a small and somewhat stuffy detective agency, whose members don't look particularly kindly on her short skirts, somewhat cavalier attitude toward agency rules--like showing up for work on time--and her overall demeanor. However, the agency's owner takes a shine to her and assigns her to what seems to be a relatively straightforward case: finding a young girl who's gone missing and whose family is worried about her. As it turns out, the case involves quite a bit more than just a missing girl.

Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by observing her fellow guests.

Joe and Sarah Marriot are a pair of European campers who have pitched their tent for a little R & R at a campsite in France. The other families that have come to the site on holiday provide great comedy and plenty of people watching for the Marriots. Of course, you'd expect hilarity from characters dubbed the Fitness Family, Mr. and Mrs. Topless, Fatty Granada, and the In-the-Trades. But the Marriots' enjoyment of observing the outside world turns inward when the entrance of Early Bird, a free-spirited female, shakes up their little nest.

Wives and Daughters is a 1999 four part BBC serial adapted from the novel Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story by Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell. It focuses on Molly Gibson (Justine Waddell), the daughter of the town doctor, and the changes that occur in her life after her widowed father chooses to remarry. The union brings into her once-quiet life an ever-proper stepmother (Francesca Annis) and flirtatious stepsister, Cynthia (Keeley Hawes), while a friendship with the local squire brings about an unexpected romance.

Dans la campagne anglaise du 19e siècle, le rêve de toute jeune femme est d'épouser un homme fortuné pour assurer son avenir. C'est bien ce que souhaiterait Mrs Bennet pour ses cinq filles, d'autant que la situation financière de la famille s'en trouverait grandement améliorée. Mais ce rêve est loin d'être partagé par la cadette, Elisabeth, en âge de se marier et bien déterminée à faire un mariage d'amour. Elle rencontre au cours d'un bal l'élégant Monsieur Darcy, riche célibataire qu'elle juge prétentieux. Les relations pour le moins tendues entre l'orgueilleux Darcy et la jeune femme, fougueuse et indépendante, sont au coeur de cette intrigue aux multiples rebondissements Ces deux êtres que tout sépare devront passer outre leurs préjugés pour pouvoir s'accorder.

1842, Cranford est une petite bourgade dans le Cheshire (en Angleterre) sur le point de connaître de profonds bouleversements et de verser dans le modernisme. Certains habitants y voient des opportunités, d'autres craignent des révolutions néfastes...

1842, Cranford est une petite bourgade dans le Cheshire (en Angleterre) sur le point de connaître de profonds bouleversements et de verser dans le modernisme. Certains habitants y voient des opportunités, d'autres craignent des révolutions néfastes...