Jane Austen was one of those authors that I refuse to read, and place in the same category as Ezra Pound’s poetry or Fitzgerald’s Gatsby - boring.
The only shows of PBS birthing that were interesting were Sherlock Holmes, set in the original times; the detective Inspector George Gently; and, at first, DCI Banks, which soured quickly.
I’m an American. I have no interest in stuffy, elitist, better than you, English aristocracy, because we divorced from them, in 1776, and had to tell them again, in 1812, and had to remind them, again, during The Civil War.