“A tantalising glimpse”
by HML
A few weeks ago I looked over the ITV-1 teaser trailer for their Jane Austen season, complained that a teaser trailer ought to tantalize, and the Northanger Abbey scenes were rather lacking in that respect. So I was poking around today and found a new teaser trailer on ITV’s web site called Winter on ITV1 (ETA 22 February – updated link).
Described as “a tantalising glimpse of the highlights of the winter season”, its Jane Austen scenes belong almost entirely to Northanger Abbey. As these scenes do not occur in the book, follow the jump for spoilers.
This trailer is set to music, no dialogue (which means no critiquing the actors’ performances this time around) and features three very nice little glimpses of our heroine and hero. In the first scene, Catherine lies in the grass, reading; she rolls over in raptures. Next, we see Catherine and Henry wearing what appear to be riding clothes as Henry gently cleans some mud from Catherine’s cheek. In our last look at Northanger Abbey, Catherine and Henry embrace and share a kiss. As they are outdoors, this may be part of the walk from Fullerton to the Allens’ house — and thus the proposal scene.
It’s too late to do anything about it now, but when an actor is naturally blessed with such lovely loose curls, it is a crime to give him a dye job and helmet hair reminiscent of an eight year-old girl run mad with her Ken doll. Just saying.
That aside, this is a much more appealing look at the upcoming Northanger Abbey film. Thanks for tantalizing, ITV-1. 
