In 1995, BBC had already commissioned Sandy Welch to write the script for an "Emma" mini-series. However, since Miramax and also Meridien were producing their own movies for cinema and television, respectively, the BBC cancelled its own project. More than ten years later, the production was revived.
Romola Garai and Laura Pyper did their own singing.
Jonny Lee Miller and Blake Ritson played Edmund Bertram in adaptations of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.
The cake served at Mr. and Mrs. Weston's wedding was created using the "Cathedral Bundt Pan" manufactured by Nordic Ware®.
The off-white striped dress worn by one of Mrs. Goddard's (Veronica Roberts') students when Emma Woodhouse (Romola Garai) first notices Harriet Smith (Louise Dylan) is the same costume Keira Knightley (Elizabeth Bennet) wore to Pemberley in Pride & Prejudice (2005).