It seems like the TV companies can’t get enough Jane Austen, but this time they’ve gone modern (or, rather, postmodern).

Lost in Austen stars Jemima Rooper (pictured – pouty much?) as Amanda Price, a frustrated romantic who lives for reading and adores the characters in her Jane Austen books. Then one day, whaddaya know, she discovers a “gateway” in her flat and finds herself exchanging lives with Pride and Prejudice’s Elizabeth Bennet. But is the “true” story in danger of being thrown off track by her presence?

It sounds to me like it could be completely fab or an unmitigated disaster… but it has got a great cast. Aside from Rooper, there’s Hugh Bonneville and Alex Kingston as Mr and Mrs Bennet, Gemma Arteton as Elizabeth Bennet (who, presumably, ends up in the modern day), and Lindsay Duncan as Lady Catherine de Bourgh. And the all-important Darcy? Elliot Cowan. Who I don’t know, but who has appeared in The Ruby in the Smoke, The Golden Compass and, er, Ultimate Force.

Lost in Austen starts on ITV1 on 3 September at 9pm.

[via Trashionista]