The new Pride and Prejudice will premiere on Netflix on December 3, 2026. Dolly Alderton revealed the date during the Jane Austen Festival in Bath alongside a fresh set of character portraits from the adaptation.

Alderton has written all six episodes, with Euros Lyn directing. Emma Corrin stars as Elizabeth Bennet and also receives an executive producer credit, while Jack Lowden plays Fitzwilliam Darcy.

The Bennets are more than Lizzy and her mother

The new images give the family its full shape. Olivia Colman is Mrs. Bennet, Rufus Sewell is Mr. Bennet, Freya Mavor plays Jane, Hopey Parish is Mary, Hollie Avery is Kitty and Rhea Norwood takes on Lydia.

Netflix's selections are surprisingly domestic. Jane and Elizabeth laugh together on a rooftop. Kitty and Lydia run down Longbourn's drive. Mary sits with her music while Mr. Bennet looks far happier with a book than with whatever chaos is developing elsewhere in the house.

That emphasis fits Alderton's stated approach. This version is not being sold as Austen radically rebuilt for 2026. It is being sold as another close look at the people already on the page.

Darcy is only one of several complicated men arriving in Hertfordshire

Lowden's new Mr. Darcy portrait is notably restrained: waistcoat, open landscape, almost no decorative flourish. Daryl McCormack plays the considerably warmer Charles Bingley.

Jamie Demetriou has the unenviable and potentially very funny job of becoming Mr. Collins, while Louis Partridge appears in military red as George Wickham. Fiona Shaw is Lady Catherine de Bourgh and Siena Kelly plays Caroline Bingley.

The wider ensemble includes Anjana Vasan and Sebastian Armesto as the Gardiners, Jasmine Blackborow as Charlotte Lucas and Isabella Sermon as Georgiana Darcy.

Alderton is treating the original dialogue as an asset, not an obstacle

Alderton has repeatedly described Austen's novel as a foundational romantic comedy, but her adaptation is not approaching that description as permission to modernize every line.

She has spoken about protecting the precision of Austen's language and resisting contemporary slang, while still adding small details informed by Austen's letters and personal life. The relationship between Elizabeth and Jane is one area where that additional material can appear without changing the architecture of the story.

The production is taking a similarly grounded approach to costume. Charlotte Walter's designs treat clothes as possessions that characters repeatedly wear rather than an endless fashion parade. Alderton has said some garments incorporate surviving textiles from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Six episodes give the social comedy room to survive

The format immediately changes what can remain on screen. A feature adaptation has to race through visits, dinners, proposals, scandals and misunderstandings. Six episodes allow the story to spend more time with the Bennet sisters and the social world surrounding Elizabeth and Darcy.

That does not make adaptation easy. Pride and Prejudice arrives carrying two centuries of readers, the cultural shadow of the 1995 BBC series and another generation attached to Joe Wright's 2005 film.

Netflix is not hiding from that history. It is placing another six-part version beside it on December 3.