Death Comes to Pemberley ( TV series ) - wikipedia Death Comes to Pemberley ( TV series ) For the book, see Death Comes to Pemberley. Death Comes to Pemberley First episode titles Genre Drama Based on Death Comes to Pemberley novel by P.D. James Written by Juliette Towhidi P.D. James ( Novel ) Directed by Daniel Percival Starring Matthew Rhys Anna Maxwell Martin Jenna Coleman Matthew Goode Trevor Eve Alexandra Moen Tom Ward Eleanor Tomlinson Rebecca Front James Fleet Penelope Keith Joanna Scanlan James Norton Nichola Burley Philip Martin Brown Kevin Eldon Composer ( s ) The Insects Country of origin United Kingdom Original language ( s ) English No. of series No. of episodes Production Executive producer ( s ) Ed Rubin Joanie Blaikie P.D. James Justin Thomson - Glover ( Far Moor ) Patrick Irwin ( Far Moor ) Rebecca Eaton ( Masterpiece ) Polly Hill ( BBC ) Location ( s ) Yorkshire Derbyshire Cinematography Steve Lawes Running time 60 minutes ( each episode ) Production company ( s ) Origin Pictures, Masterpiece co-production Release Original network BBC One Picture format 16 : 9 1080i Audio format Stereo Original release 26 December ( 2013 - 12 - 26 ) -- 28 December 2013 ( 2013 - 12 - 28 ) External links BBC site Death Comes to Pemberley www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01mqkm5 Death Comes to Pemberley is a three - part British television drama based on the best - selling P.D. James novel of the same name. Her murder mystery was based on the style and characters of Jane Austen 's Pride and Prejudice. The series was commissioned by Controller of BBC Drama Commissioning Ben Stephenson and then - Controller of BBC One Danny Cohen, and was first broadcast from 26 -- 28 December 2013 on BBC One. Contents 1 Premise 2 Cast 3 Production 3.1 Casting 3.2 Filming 4 Episodes 5 Reception 6 References 7 External links Premise It is October 1803, six years after the marriage of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy and Miss Elizabeth Bennet, as recounted in Pride and Prejudice. One evening, George Wickham and his wife Lydia ( Elizabeth 's sister ) are traveling by carriage to Pemberly for a ball with Captain Denny. Wickham and Denny have an argument, and leave the carriage in anger. The two men disappear into the woodland, where Lydia hears two gunshots. After being informed, Darcy sends out a search party, who find Wickham distraught and hysterical, holding Denny 's body and blaming himself for his murder. Cast Matthew Rhys as Fitzwilliam Darcy Anna Maxwell Martin as Elizabeth Darcy Jenna Louise Coleman as Lydia Wickham Matthew Goode as George Wickham Trevor Eve as Sir Selwyn Hardcastle Alexandra Moen as Jane Bingley Rebecca Front as Mrs Bennet James Fleet as Mr Bennet Penelope Keith as Lady Catherine de Bourgh Joanna Scanlan as Mrs Reynolds Tom Ward as Colonel Fitzwilliam Eleanor Tomlinson as Georgiana Darcy James Norton as Mr Henry Alveston Nichola Burley as Louisa Bidwell Philip Martin Brown as Mr Bidwell Kevin Eldon as Dr McFee Jennifer Hennessy as Mrs Bidwell Lewis Rainer as Will Bidwell Mariah Gale as Mrs Younge Tom Canton as Captain Martin Denny Oliver Maltman as George Pratt David Blockley as Footman Production Casting The cast was announced on 18 June 2013. The series was cast by Gary Davy. Actor Tom Ward, who plays Colonel Fitzwilliam, is the only cast member to have previously played a role in an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. He played Lt Chamberlayne in the 1995 BBC adaptation. Filming Filming began in June 2013 on location in Yorkshire and Derbyshire and has been supported with investment from Screen Yorkshire. Chatsworth House in Derbyshire was used as the exterior of Pemberley, and rooms at Chatsworth and at Castle Howard and Harewood House, both in Yorkshire, were used for indoor scenes. Areas of National Trust land, including Hardcastle Crags, Fountains Abbey and the Studley Royal estate and Treasurer 's House, were also used in filming. Beverley 's Guildhall provided the location for a courtroom. The gallows scenes were filmed on a purpose - built scaffold outside York Crown Court, with Wickham emerging from the gate to the old debtors ' prison in the York Museum. Episodes No. Title Directed by Written by Original air date UK viewers ( millions ) `` Episode One '' Daniel Percival Juliette Towhidi 26 December 2013 ( 2013 - 12 - 26 ) 7.81 Elizabeth Darcy and her husband of 6 years are in the midst of preparing for a ball. They welcome Elizabeth 's parents and Mr. Darcy 's cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam. One who is not invited is Elizabeth 's sister Lydia and her ne'er - do - well husband, George Wickham. An hysterical Lydia arrives at Pemberley late that same night saying that Wickham had argued with his friend Captain Denny who ordered the coach stopped and ran into the woods with Wickham running after him. She soon heard two shots leading her to order the coach to Pemberley at full speed. A search party soon finds Denny dead and Wickham bloodied and semi-conscious. Darcy contacts the local magistrate, Sir Selwin Hardcastle, who investigates and quickly arrests Wickham for murder. `` Episode Two '' Daniel Percival Juliette Towhidi 27 December 2013 ( 2013 - 12 - 27 ) 6.00 Wickham is visited in jail by Fitzwilliam, who has his own reason for keeping quiet although Fitzwilliam has an alibi for the murder as he was publicly seen in the company of one of his soldiers ' widow. Elizabeth assures the staff that they have nothing to fear - whilst cancelling the ball - but is intrigued by fragments of a torn letter whose writer sought to meet Darcy in the woods. She tells Hardcastle she saw the woman believed to be the ghost in the woods but was certain she was mortal. Later she comes upon a grave in the woods and is told it belongs to the Darcys ' great grandfather, a reckless gambler who almost lost Pemberley. Whilst Georgiana turns down Alveston 's marriage proposal the young lawyer supports Darcy at the inquest, whose jury finds Wickham guilty of murder and sends him to the Assizes. Furthermore Elizabeth learns that Wickham has used a false name to seduce a serving girl Louisa Bidwell, who has borne his child. `` Episode Three '' Daniel Percival Juliette Towhidi 28 December 2013 ( 2013 - 12 - 28 ) 6.05 With Wickham in jail awaiting trial, he admits to Darcy that he is the father of Louisa Bidwell 's child. Louisa tells Elizabeth that on the morning of the murder she had met Captain Denny and a woman - the same woman Elizabeth and some of the housemaids had seen in the woods - who would adopt the baby. Louisa changed her mind at the last moment however. She also saw Colonel Fitzwilliam at the abbey that morning. Sir Selwyn Hardcastle becomes aware that Wickham is the father of Louisa Bidwell 's child and seems intent on using that information at the trial. Fitzwilliam soon falls out of favour and after Wickham is found guilty and sentenced to hang, it 's left to Elizabeth to uncover the identity of the true killer. Reception The Guardian described the tone of the first episode as respectful of Austen 's original, but `` not afraid to stand out and be its own very different thing as well '', describing it as a `` mashup '' between period drama and Agatha Christie or Midsomer Murders. A later Guardian review described the series as `` pretty much perfect Christmas TV '', praising the appearance of the series and the `` satisfying plot ''. Lina Talbot, writing for the Independent, praised the casting of Mr and Mrs Bennet. The Radio Times praised the production values of the piece, and noted that they were supported by a `` meaty '' plot. References Jump up ^ BBC media centre. Retrieved 26 December 2013 Jump up ^ Susanna Lazarus. Death Comes to Pemberley 's Matthew Rhys : `` The best thing about playing Mr Darcy is that shirt '' RadioTimes. Retrieved 26 December 2013. Jump up ^ `` Jenna Coleman to Star in Death Comes To Pemberley ''. Doctor Who. BBC. 18 June 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2013. Jump up ^ `` Death comes to Pemberley ; behind the scenes ''. The Telegraph. Retrieved 27 December 2013. Jump up ^ `` Death comes to Pemberley on BBC1 ''. Hull Daily Mail. Retrieved 27 December 2013. Jump up ^ `` BARB weekly top 30 programmes ''. BARB. Retrieved 7 August 2015. Jump up ^ ( 1 ) Jump up ^ https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/dec/28/pemberley-downton-doctor-who-midwife Jump up ^ ( 2 ) Jump up ^ http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-12-26/death-comes-to-pemberley-review--does-matthew-rhys-fill-colin-firths-shoes-as-mr-darcy External links Cano - López, Marina. Review Death Comes to Pemberley ( TV series ). CRTICKS : The British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. 14 February 2014. http://www.bsecs.org.uk/criticks/ReviewDetails.aspx?id=181&type=4 Death Comes to Pemberley at BBC Programmes Death Comes to Pemberley on IMDb Jane Austen 's Pride and Prejudice Characters Bennet family Elizabeth Bennet Fitzwilliam Darcy William Collins Lady Catherine de Bourgh Mr. Wickham Films Pride and Prejudice ( 1940 ) Bridget Jones 's Diary ( 2001 ) Pride & Prejudice : A Latter - Day Comedy ( 2003 ) Bride and Prejudice ( 2004 film ) Pride & Prejudice ( 2005 ) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies ( 2016 ) Television Pride and Prejudice ( 1958 ) Pride and Prejudice ( 1967 ) Pride and Prejudice ( 1980 ) Trishna ( 1985 ) Pride and Prejudice ( 1995 ) Lost in Austen ( 2008 ) Death Comes to Pemberley ( 2013 ) Novels Darcy 's Story ( 1995 ) Bridget Jones 's Diary ( 1996 ) Mr. Darcy 's Daughters ( 2003 ) Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman An Assembly Such as This ( 2003 ) Duty and Desire ( 2004 ) These Three Remain ( 2005 ) Austenland ( 2007 ) Love, Lies and Lizzie ( 2009 ) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies ( 2009 parody ) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies : Dawn of the Dreadfuls ( 2010 parody ) Death Comes to Pemberley ( 2011 ) Other First Impressions ( 1959 musical ) Pride and Prejudice ( 1993 musical ) `` Beyond a Joke '' ( 1997 ) Stolthet och fördom ( 2011 opera ) The Lizzie Bennet Diaries ( 2012 web series ) Austenland ( 2013 film ) See also Pride & Prejudice ( soundtrack ) Pemberley List of literary adaptations Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Death_Comes_to_Pemberley_(TV_series)&oldid=800027940 '' Categories : 1803 in fiction 2010s British drama television series 2013 British television programme debuts 2013 British television programme endings BBC high definition programmes BBC television dramas British television miniseries British crime television series English - language television programs Television series set in the 1800s Television programmes based on works by Jane Austen Works based on Pride and Prejudice Hidden categories : Use dmy dates from June 2015 Use British English from June 2015 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Español Français עברית Қазақша Русский 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 11 September 2017, at 05 : 41. 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Question: where did they film death comes to pemberley
Answer: Yorkshire and Derbyshire