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Eyre is a 2012 British television series produced for BBC Wales, created and written by Steven Moffat, who also created the series Sherlock and Jekyll. Like these series, Eyre is a television adaptation of a classic of Victorian literature, namely Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. The choice to adapt Jane Eyre in particular was made after considerations of adapting Charles Dickens novels, which Moffat decided would not be long enough for a whole miniseries with the descriptions that take up three-fourths of any of the books reduced to a five-second scene.
As with his other Victorian literature modernisations, Moffat reduced the title to a single word, because "when people hear 'Eyre', they're automatically going to complete that with 'Jane'. Unless they're more familiar with Lake Eyre in Australia, in which case, we don't care about them anyhow. Also, it sounds more modern, because we know the modern audience can't be expected to remember a title longer than a single word. Idiots, the lot of them."
Critical reception was overwhelmingly positive, with most reviewers unanimously praising the wonderfully cast actors, the reverence paid to the original work, the irreverence paid to the original work, the delightfully intricate writing even if it may not make any sense whatsoever from time to time, and the contractual obligation under which they must unanimously praise everything that Steven Moffat ever writes.
Moffat has generously provided us with excerpts directly from the shooting scripts, provided that we stop mailing him our Eleventh Doctor/Oscar Wilde script.
Scene 1: Gateshead[edit | edit source]
Jane sits in the sitting room, her head buried in a book, while her cousins John, Eliza and Georgiana play Grand Theft Auto IV on their Xbox while sipping on Coca-Cola to show just how modernised even their minor character selves have become in this adaptation.