Pride and Prejudice (2026)

At six episodes, Netflix’s Pride and Prejudice has the same running room as the 1995 BBC miniseries — the version most often cited as the novel’s most faithful screen translation — rather than the compressed two-hour format of the 1940 and 2005 films. That alone makes it the most closely watched new Austen adaptation in over a decade.

Where this page fits

This page is a placeholder entry for the site’s adaptations index and its full Pride and Prejudice comparison — for the complete, continuously updated cast list, filming locations, and everything confirmed so far, see the dedicated tracking page, which is updated as soon as a firm premiere date or full trailer lands.

What’s confirmed

Written by Dolly Alderton (a novelist and columnist known for wry, contemporary writing about love and friendship) and directed by Euros Lyn, the series was filmed across the UK from July 2025, with confirmed locations including Spitalfields in London, the Peak District in Derbyshire, and Rye in East Sussex standing in for Meryton. Netflix has called it a faithful, classic adaptation rather than a modernized retelling, though reporting on Alderton’s involvement has suggested a sharper, more contemporary comic register in the dialogue than either the 1995 or 2005 versions attempted.

How it positions itself against the earlier versions

Six hour-long episodes puts this version in direct structural comparison with the 1995 BBC miniseries rather than with either film. Where the 1995 version built its reputation on fidelity and slow accumulation of detail, and the 2005 film leaned hardest into romantic atmosphere within a tight two hours, the 2026 series arrives with a writer whose prior work suggests wit and pace over either of those emphases — whether that produces a genuinely distinct take on the novel, rather than a rehearsal of choices the 1995 version already made well, is the open question hanging over its release. See the full comparison across every Pride and Prejudice adaptation, 1938–2026 for how it’s expected to stack up.