ITV’s answer to Gene Hunt: Jane Austen
ITV wishes to compete with Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, so it has come up with a new series, Lost in Austen, for next month.
The heroine, Amanda Price (note that human time travellers must have five letters in their surname, e.g. Tyler and Drake, McFly and Brown), played by Hammersmith-born Jemima Rooper, is transported back to Jane Austen’s time, leading her to wonder: ‘Am I mad, in a coma, or back in time?’
She’s been reading too much Pride and Prejudice, and notices that in her new world she has assimilated Mr Darcy et al.
But instead of being struck by an old Cavalier, she has discovered a time portal, once used by Nicholas Lyndhurst to get back to World War II, or something like that.
Bond girl Gemma Arterton co-stars as Elizabeth Bennet, which kind of reminds me of the time another Bond girl, Rosamund Pike, played Jane Bennet. No word on a cameo from Halle Berry.
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I wonder what I would do. In the mini-series, Price tries to keep the story on track because she realizes if she tampers with the setting, it could ruin her favourite book, Pride and Prejudice. I imagine that a real-life time traveller might not want to tinker too much because it would affect the next outcome. Say you altered the first incident and won a million dollars, it might decrease the chances of the second incident that you once knew would happen happening. Eventually, your “lucky streak” would balance out with everyone else’s because your choices would effectively have taken you to an alternative universe. (All theory, of course, since I have not been time travelling lately, ever since the De Lorean got loaned out for the second episode of Ashes to Ashes.)