Olivia Williams News

With yet another Jane Austen adaptation about to hit our TV screens, Liz Hoggard wonders how much longer writers will hide in her shadow PA Gemma Arterton, the star of 'Lost in Austen', the new ITV adaptation ...

Well I was hoping we'd see the new Joss Whedon series on Fox's Fall 2008 schedule but it looks like we'll be waiting until midseason 2009 for Dollhouse to premiere. via Cinema Blend News

“The script is based on Austen's surviving letters to her sister and to her young niece Fanny. So I must share the credit for quite a lot of the dialogue with Miss Austen herself”

Playing Jane Austen can seriously damage your health. That, at least, is the worry of Olivia Williams. via Irish Independent

Matthew Lillard More pilot season coverage In the latest round of pilot castings, Will Kemp has been tapped as the male lead in CBS' drama pilot "Ny-Lon," Olivia Williams is set to co-star on Fox's "Dollhouse" ... via Hollywood Reporter

Slowly but surely, the cast roster for Joss Whedon's much anticipated new series Dollhouse is filling up. via Cinema Blend News

Olivia Williams has been tapped to co-star on Fox's "Dollhouse." Joss Whedon's "Dollhouse," from 20th Century Fox TV, revolves around a group of young men and women, aka "Dolls," who are imprinted with ... via Hollywood Reporter

Filed under: Screen - Mags @ 8:14 pm The break is over, and the Complete Jane Austen is back with a broadcast of Emma starring Kate Beckinsale, first broadcast on A&E about ten years ago. via AustenBlog . . . she's everywhere

Ernest William Pratt, 79, of Paris died Monday, Feb. 25, 2008, at Paris Regional Medical Center, following a long battle with pneumonia. via Paris Texas

Appellate Judge Tom Becker couldn't kill a king crab, much less King Rupert Everett. via DVD Verdict

Alfred Molina, Orlando Bloom and Berlin Silver Bear winner Sally Hawkins have signed up to join the cast of Lone Scherfig's "An Education," producers said Wednesday. via Hollywood Reporter

Fitzwilliam Darcy + Elizabeth Bennett= Cinecultist feels a little remiss in not blogging about this before but PBS's stalwart Masterpiece Theater has been trying to revive their following with an intensive ... via Cinecultist

Too good for the West End ... Anne Reid and Olivia Williams in Happy Now? Photograph: Tristram Kenton Ah, London's West End - a thoroughfare that can be relied upon to send out mixed messages at every turn. via MediaGuardian.co.uk

“This is how it must have been.”

Miss Austen Regrets: On "Masterpiece," starring Olivia Williams, Greta Scacchi, Hugh Bonneville and Phyllida Law. via SFGate

Olivia Williams stars as novelist Jane Austen in PBS' biopic 'Miss Austen Regrets,' airing Sunday at 9 p.m. on 'Masterpiece Theater.' Filmed in the U.K. by WGBH and the BBC. via Variety.com

“Masterpiece'; it has dropped 'Theatre”

F ictionalized portraits of famous authors aren't rare on TV. But those who would dare give Jane Austen the costume-drama treatment had better know what they are doing. via Chicago Tribune

Jane Austen wrote about romance and courtship from personal experience, so it is hard to believe that she never married. via WVIZ-TV Cleveland

Written and Directed by M. Night Shyamalan Bruce Willis as Dr. Malcolm Crowe Haley Joel Osment as Cole Sear Toni Collette as his mother Lynn Sear Olivia Williams as Anne Crowe Donnie Wahlberg as Vincent Grey ... via BellaOnline