BBC Announces a new Mary Bennet miniseries, “The Other Bennet Sister” in development!

BBC announces new drama The Other Bennet Sister The ten part-series is a fresh spin around the ballroom for one of Jane Austen’s most unassuming characters: Mary Bennet! 

UPDATE (10/11/2024): According to Deadline: The Other Bennet Sister will air on the 30th anniversary of the BBC’s hugely successful version of Pride and Prejudice, which starred Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth as Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy. 

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The Other Bennet Sister is a fresh spin around the ballroom for one of Jane Austen’s most unassuming characters: Mary Bennet – the seemingly unremarkable and overlooked middle sister in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. 

The series takes as its premise that - when it comes to the Bennet sisters - while we dream of being Lizzy, in reality most us are more like Mary... Unlike her sisters, Mary isn’t your typical period drama heroine. She is awkward, anxious, preachy, full of facts, a terrible singer… overlooked by her mother and seemingly destined to an empty dance card for the rest of her life… until Mary takes matters into her own hands. 

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