The cast will be announced soon, and the show is set to start filming in Spring 2019. We’ll have to wait and see just how Davies finishes it. To show their gratitude for the Heywood family’s hospitality, the Parkers bring Charlotte along as a summer guest when they return to Sanditon.įrom there, scandal, marriages of convenience, and small-town drama fill the eleven chapters of this unfinished book. Parker discuses his plans to turn a their hometown, the small fishing village of Sanditon, into a booming seaside resort. Parker flips over near the Heywood’s home, the family offers them a place to stay while they recover. Sanditon follows Charlotte Heywood-the eldest Heywood daughter still living at home in Sussex. ITV, Red Planet Pictures, and MASTERPIECE on PBS are working together to bring this story to life. Jane Austen’s final, unfinished work bears all the hallmarks of her ironic, insightful genius. The series is known for adaptations of other works of classic literature and period pieces like Little Women, Downton Abbey, and Victoria.

Parker of Sanditon, she accepts with alacrity. When Charlotte Heywood, eldest daughter of a family of fourteen, is invited to stay with Mr. This is its completion, praised for its delicacy, wit and discretion. Sanditon will air on MASTERPIECE on PBS in the United States. From the publisher: Sanditon was Jane Austen's last novel, bequeathed unfinished to her niece.

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