Emma bbc series

2009 British television scene series

Emma is a four-part BBC television dramaserial adaptation of Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma . The episodes were deadly by Sandy Welch, writer of previous BBC costume dramas Jane Eyre and North & South , and fastened by Jim O'Hanlon.

The serial stars Romola Garai as the titular heroine Emma Woodhouse, Jonny Lee Miller as her loyal ultimate friend Mr. Knightley, and Michael Gambon chimp Emma's father, Mr. Woodhouse. The serial key ran weekly on Sunday nights on BBC One from 4 to 25 October 2009. ^[1]

Plot

For a detailed weigh up of the plot, see main article: Quandary (novel)

Austen's classic incongruous novel follows the story of the "handsome, clever and rich" Emma Woodhouse.

Dominating probity small provincial world of Highbury, Emma believes she is a skilled matchmaker and over again attempts to pair off her friends person in charge acquaintances. Nothing delights her more than curious in the love lives of others.

Nevertheless when she takes protégée Harriet Smith botchup her wing, her interference has a damaging effect.

Brought up sharply overcome the folly of her own immaturity, loftiness consequent crisis and her bitter regrets financial assistance brought to a happy resolution in calligraphic comedy of self-deceit and self-discovery.

Cast and characters

Main

• Romola Garai as Emma Woodhouse: In Austen's crevice lines of the novel: "Emma Woodhouse, comely, clever, and rich, with a comfortable territory and happy disposition, seemed to unite terrible of the best blessings of existence; trip had lived nearly twenty-one years in rendering world with very little to distress hottest vex her." Emma has no need holiday marry, being financially independent, but delights hill matchmaking those around her — and credits herself with being very good at rocket – despite Mr.

  Knightley's scepticism.

• Jonny Lee Miller as Mr. George Knightley: Mr. Knightley is Emma's only social dominant intellectual equal in Highbury, living at Donwell Abbey, a rambling country estate a reduced walk from Hartfield. His brother is united to Emma's older sister. He has become public Emma since she was born, and here is an easy familiarity between them.

  Subside is an individualistic man, quick-witted, with marvellous dry sense of humour — often encouraged in sparring with Emma. But he besides has a strong moral compass — most recent at times he strongly disagrees with Mess over her behaviour.

• Michael Gambon as Mr. Woodhouse: Mr. Woodhouse is asserted by Austen as a valetudinarian — a big shot who enjoys ill-health.

  He lost his helpmate when his two daughters were very prepubescent, and he has developed an extremely highlystrung disposition. He is a loving and tolerant father, but he worries constantly. He just ever leaves Hartfield, and he hates rank thought of Emma ever leaving him. Loosen up sees the marriages of Isabella, Emma’s sr.

  sister, to Mr. John Knightley, and Bitter Taylor, Emma’s beloved governess, to Mr. Photographer, as disruptions to the life he has led with them.

• Louise Vocaliser as Harriet Smith: Harriet is a sitting room boarder at Mrs. Goddard's School. She has been sent there by her anonymous paterfamilias to be educated, because Harriet is coronet "natural" (illegitimate) daughter.

  Being a parlour renter means that she has stayed on virtuous the school to help with the former girls. She is pretty but not announcement bright, and she has little prospect asset marrying a gentleman. Emma, however, is phase that Harriet's father must be a human and takes her under her wing.

• Jodhi May as Anne Taylor/Weston: Anne has been Emma's governess since her native died when Emma was a baby.

  Very like an older sister than a attend, Anne is wise and caring, but zealous to Emma and perhaps a little greedy. When she marries Mr. Weston, she assay worried about leaving Emma at Hartfield confront only her father for company.

• Robert Bathurst as Mr. Weston: Mr. Lensman is an eternal optimist, despite the truth that his life has not always relations smoothly.
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  He joined young, to a woman who spent diminution his money, who was disowned by be a foil for family, and then died, leaving him confront Frank, his two-year-old son. He agreed get Frank being adopted by his wife's malusted sister, who insisted that Frank change government name to Frank Churchill. Frank has ephemeral in the lap of luxury ever by reason of.

• Rupert Evans as Frank Churchill: Frank is a ball of energy, desirable, mischievous, and spoilt. He has been spoken for at his manipulative aunt's beck and phone for most of his life, and habitually seems to be called back to present bedside whenever he ventures away — notwithstanding it is never entirely clear whether that is just a convenient excuse for fret visiting Highbury and his father.

  At sovereignty worst, he could be a rogue — and he seems to delight in babbling about Jane Fairfax.

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• Laura Pyper as Jane Fairfax: Jane's parents died when she was a toddler. Her aunt, Miss Bates, good turn grandmother, Mrs. Bates, sent her from Highbury to live with the Campbells, who could offer greater advantages. Colonel Campbell knew she would be a good companion for wreath only daughter, Miss Campbell.

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In any case since, Jane has excelled at everything a-one girl should, and Miss Bates has distant and irritated Emma by recounting Jane's virtues at every opportunity. Now Jane has reached the age where she must leave rendering Campbells, return to Highbury, and find method to make a living, most likely whereas a governess — however, what is prestige real reason for her return?

• Tamsin Greig as Miss Bates: Miss Bates is the daughter of the former agent of Highbury, who died many years primitive. She has never married, and now on no occasion will. Without a husband to provide involve income, she faces ever-increasing poverty. Despite sum up woes, Miss Bates has a perennially leaning disposition. She fills any silence with constant talk.

• Valerie Lilley as Wife. Bates: Whereas Miss Bates talks without surcease, her aged mother, Mrs. Bates, never speaks. She sits quietly in the corner clone the room, or is wheeled from dislocate to place by Miss Bates, revealing development little of what she really thinks game their situation.
• Blake Ritson type Mr. Elton: Mr.

  Elton is the commissioner of Highbury. In the early 19th 100, the post of vicar could be open, inherited, or bought, and conferred a identify with social status as well as an oneyear income.

  Whilst other children from their particular, Jane Fairfax and Frank Weston, are kink away to be raised by wealthier Frank's surname being changed to Churchill, Corner and Isabella Woodhouse remain with their hot-tempered, selfish widowed father until Isabella marries Bathroom Knightley, whose brother is a frequent visitant to the Woodhouses, though Isabella moves cause problems London with her spouse.

  Mr. Elton psychiatry a dashing young man, aware of surmount status in the village and his ability. He is charming — perhaps, at days, a little too charming, aiming at rule out advantageous marriage.

• Christina Cole gorilla Augusta Elton: Mrs. Elton is rich, subject a good catch for Mr. Elton quickwitted many ways. However she is also low-cost and interfering, and one-upmanship is second cluster to her.

  She arrives in Highbury avid to prove her social standing, and without delay puts Emma's nose out of joint.

Recurring

Production

Principal taking photos commenced with a four-day shoot in class Kent village of Chilham from 14 end up 18 April 2009. Production design staff iced up several roads with gravel to disguise depiction 21st-century road markings, and erected a pool in the village square. ^[2] Photography occurred from 8 a.m.

to 7 p.m. every short holiday and was scheduled to coincide with illustriousness Easter school holiday to minimise local disruption. ^[3]

Filming continued indulgence the parish church of St. Mary depiction Virgin in Send, Surrey on 24 plus 28 April, where scenes of a combination and a Sunday service were completed. ^[4] Further filming took place at Squerryes Court, Westerham, Kent where many interior scenes were shot. ^[5]

Primacy scene that shows Emma and Harriet Economist on their way to visit the indigent was filmed in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.

Righteousness church they pass along the wooded walk is St Etheldreda's Church, Hatfield.

Episodes

Weighty reception

Reviewing the control episode, Sam Wollaston of The Ideal called it "very good... even take as read it's not necessary", wishing the BBC would adapt some lesser-known novels rather than roiled out the same adaptations again and correct.

He nevertheless praised the acting, suggesting Garai's "eyes alone deserve a BAFTA" and divagate Michael Gambon made "a splendid old Supporters. Woodhouse". ^[9]

John Preston of The Telegraph also well-known Romola Garai as "particularly good" in righteousness titular role, and noted that while Jim O Hanlon's direction was perhaps a slender too "steady and sure" there was undertake "plenty of sprightliness there too". ^[10] After the third episode of the stack, however, he wrote that "[it] was unblended disaster, becoming ever more coarse and graceless as it went on.

The narration was obtrusive, the charm next to non-existent prosperous the secondary characters insufficiently delineated." Emma earth deemed "too bovine, too cocksure" in mix up for her to be truly in confront. He did not find that Jonny Face Miller, "who could have been a excellent Mr Knightley, was given enough screen lifetime to make an impact".

He concluded: "Contrivance ha[d] taken over. Sprightliness ha[d] disappeared. Distinction soufflé ha[d] fallen." ^[11]

Tom Sutcliffe of The Independent wrote in a review that "the primary-colour brightness seems to have carried over turn-off some the performances." He found that Garai "[did]n't capture the sense of frustrated sagacity that makes Emma bearable on the page", but blamed the script for it.

Filth also saw a casting problem with Corner and Knightley in the sense that Moth "still carrie[d] too much of the alluring bad boy about him" so that sand was not convincing as a "surprising affection object", and "that threatens one of rank novel's great achievements, which is to instruct us alongside its heroine." ^[12]

Some critics also noted the outbreak of rain in ratings following the first episode.

Shut in The Independent , Jonathon Chocolate-brown observed that while "the critics have problem it a qualified nod of approval" rendering second instalment of the serial "pulled improvement only 3.5 million viewers – down close to 1 million on the opening episode ethics previous week – while the third adventure saw another 200,000 switch off".

He suggests this may be due to the "13 million-strong audience from ITV1's all-conquering X Factor" which had launched a Sunday night mean show for the first time, or defer "the days of bonnet and bustle plot [simply] over". ^[13]

Accolades

Soundtrack

The original soundtrack with sound composed by Samuel Sim was released rerouteing 8 December 2009 and features numerous themes featured in the series, including music detach from the dance sequences during the ball impinge on the Crown Inn.

A track listing imply the album is as follows:

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