British Period Drama · ITV / PBS · 2019–2023
Sanditon
Based on Jane Austen's final, unfinished novel, Sanditon transports you to a fashionable seaside resort where romance, intrigue, and fortune-hunting abound from the sandy shore to the candlelit assembly rooms. Rose Williams stars as bold, modern heroine Charlotte Heywood alongside Crystal Clarke's heiress Georgiana Lambe. Gorgeous costumes, sparkling wit, love triangles, and addictive drama penned by renowned Austen adapter Andrew Davies — your carriage awaits. Sanditon streams via PBS in the US.
About the show
Jane Austen was working on Sanditon, an eleven-chapter fragment set in a seaside resort town, when she died in 1817 — and Andrew Davies, the screenwriter behind Pride and Prejudice and War & Peace, expanded that fragment into the full series. Rose Williams stars as Charlotte Heywood throughout, opposite Theo James for the first series and, in a supporting role, Kris Marshall (also familiar from Death in Paradise) as Tom Parker. ITV cancelled the show after one series in 2019, but a fan campaign and strong PBS Masterpiece ratings brought it back for two more series, concluding in 2023.
Where to watch in the US
PBS Masterpiece
All 3 seasons · Free via local PBS station · full library with PBS Passport
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