Every Sunday and Thursday, January 13 - April 6
9 p.m. on WETA TV 26

Masterpiece presents The Complete Jane Austen, a series of beautifully acted, lavishly set and gorgeously costumed adaptations of all of the beloved novelist's immortal tales of romance in turn-of-the-19th-century England.

The Austen extravaganza features all-new productions of Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, and Sense and Sensibility. The lineup will also include the acclaimed Emma, starring Kate Beckinsale and the Emmy Award-winning Pride and Prejudice that made actor Colin Firth, portraying Mr. Darcy, a leading man. An additional presentation, Miss Austen Regrets, is a new biopic — based on Austen's own letters and diaries — that relates the author's own bittersweet love life.

Watch Masterpiece: The Complete Jane Austen series every Sunday night at 9 p.m., with an encore presentation each Thursday night at 9 p.m. on WETA TV 26.

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Masterpiece: The Complete Jane Austen: Persuasion
» Sunday, January 13 and Thursday, January 17 | When to watch
Sally Hawkins stars as Anne Elliot, destined for spinsterhood at age 27 after being persuaded eight years earlier to refuse the proposal of dashing Captain Wentworth, portrayed by Rupert Penry-Jones. Then chance brings them together again. While her better days are past, his are ahead as he's now rich and free to play the field among eligible beauties. Anthony Head co-stars and Anne's spendthrift father.

Masterpiece: The Complete Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey
» Sunday, January 20 and Thursday, January 24 | When to watch
In Jane Austen's gentle parody of gothic fiction, Felicity Jones plays romance addict Catherine Morland. Invited to a medieval country house that appeals to her most lurid fantasies, she forms a close friendship with the younger son on the estate, Henry Tilney, but their budding romance is mysteriously cut short.

Masterpiece: The Complete Jane Austen: Mansfield Park
» Sunday, January 27 and Thursday, January 31 | When to watch
Jane Austen's most complex plot stars Billie Piper as Fanny Price, who goes to live with prosperous relatives at Mansfield Park. Fanny navigates a labyrinth of intrigues and affairs among the occupants of the house, while her cousin Edmund Bertram (Blake Ritson) remains her stalwart confidant.

Masterpiece: The Complete Jane Austen: Miss Austen Regrets
» Sunday, February 3 and Thursday, February 7 | When to watch
If nothing else, Jane Austen wrote from personal experience. Courtship she knew well; only the last act eluded her. This film biography dramatizes Austen's lost loves: Harris Bigg, whose proposal she accepted and then rejected; Edward Brydges, whom she also refused; the tongue-tied vicar she teased mercilessly; and the young surgeon who arrived on the scene too late to steal her heart.

Masterpiece: The Complete Jane Austen: Pride & Prejudice
» Sunday, February 10, 17 & 24 and Thursday, February 14, 21 & 28 | When to watch
With five daughters, no sons and an entailed estate, the elder Bennets are in dire straits as they try to arrange advantageous marriages. Wedding bells ring three times, but the path to true love is tortuous indeed. The definitive adaptation of the most-loved of all Austen novels stars Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy and Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet.

Masterpiece: The Complete Jane Austen: Emma
» Sunday, March 23 and Thursday, March 27 | When to watch
Kate Beckinsale stars in the title role as the tireless matchmaker who professes no interest in matrimony for herself, only for her orphaned protégée, Harriet Smith, portrayed by Samantha Morton. Still, Emma does feel a certain twinge for Frank Churchill (Raymond Coulthard) and a brotherly regard for Mr. Knightley (Mark Strong).

Masterpiece: The Complete Jane Austen: Sense & Sensibility
» Sunday, March 30 & April 6 and Thursday, April 3 & 10 |
When to watch
Hattie Morahan plays levelheaded Elinor Dashwood and Charity Wakefield is her impulsive sister Marianne. Though poor, they attract a trio of very promising gentlemen: soon-to-be wealthy Edward Ferrars (Dan Stevens), heroic Colonel Brandon (David Morrissey) and Byronic John Willoughby (Dominic Cooper).