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Jane Austen drama returns: how the Sanditon Sisterhood saved their show
Period drama returns 18 months after it was cancelled by ITV, thanks to a campaign by devoted fans
15 May 2021 • 3:00pm
Rose Williams will return as heroine Charlotte Heywood in the new series of Sanditon
Credit: Red Planet/ITV
Sanditon, the Jane Austen drama cancelled by ITV after one series, is to be revived after a campaign by fans.
ITV announced at the end of 2019 that the costume drama, based on Austen’s unfinished novel, would not return because its ratings were poor.
Fans were bereft and a group of women calling themselves the Sanditon Sisterhood began a campaign to keep the show alive.