ITV series Sanditon, filmed in Brean, is set to return for two new series
Popular period ITV drama series
Sanditon, which was partly filmed in Brean, is set to return for a second and third series, it has been announced this week.
Voted one of the top 15 shows of 2020 in America, and premiering to wide critical acclaim,
Sanditon is the drama based on Jane Austen’s final, unfinished novel.
It has been renewed this week with the double order following a successful social media campaign by fans.
Streaming service BritBox UK has now taken on the show as a co-producer and will premiere the series as a BritBox Original in the UK.
GFSL scores a double win across service delivery and customer accolades
HMP Ford installs new pod accommodation in record time and HMP High Down receives accolade from Governor.
From:
7 May 2021
Spread out over acres of open fields, Ford prison has an operational capacity of 544. However, during the pandemic, this came under pressure to enable new prisoners to self-isolate.
To meet demand, GFSL’s site team swiftly demolished 8 billets to make way for new British-made units, or ‘pods’.
A team expertly winched a total of 80 pods weighing 2.5 tonnes each into place on a newly levelled field at Ford. They will shortly re-house 120 prisoners alongside the existing accommodations, comprising a brick-built block with 274 single rooms and two brick built billets.
Press Release
MASTERPIECE renews Red Planet Pictures’ acclaimed drama for two more seasons
BritBox boards as UK streaming partner
“Lush and Fun” The New York Times
“Funny, unsettling and enthralling.”
“Sanditon is sexy escapism…tart and political, gorgeous and honest.
Austen would have loved it.” IndieWire
Boston, MA and London, UK: May 6, 2021 MASTERPIECE on PBS today announced, with Red Planet Pictures, the renewal of the acclaimed and hugely popular drama, Sanditon, for a second and third season. Streaming service BritBox will be the UK partner.
Voted one of the top 15 shows of 2020 in the U.S. by Vogue and premiering to wide critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, Sanditon, the fan favorite drama based on Jane Austen’s final, unfinished novel and developed by Emmy® and BAFTA-Award winning writer Andrew Davies, has been renewed with the double order following its successful run in the U.S. on MASTERPIECE. BritBox UK has boarded the show as a co-
MASTERPIECE and BritBox UK plan a return visit to Sanditon
Published: Thu 06 May 2021
MASTERPIECE and BritBox UK plan a return visit to Sanditon
MASTERPIECE renews Red Planet Pictures’ acclaimed drama for two more seasons
BritBox boards as UK streaming partner
“Lush and Fun” The New York Times
“Funny, unsettling and enthralling.”
“Sanditon is sexy escapism…tart and political, gorgeous and honest.
Austen would have loved it.” IndieWire
Boston, MA and London, UK: May 6, 2021 MASTERPIECE on PBS today announced, with Red Planet Pictures, the renewal of the acclaimed and hugely popular drama, Sanditon, for a second and third season. Streaming service BritBox will be the UK partner.
It wasn’t Jane Austen’s subtlest move, naming her roguish soldier George Wickham.
It wasn’t Jane Austen’s subtlest move, naming her roguish soldier George Wickham. As countless GCSE English teachers have patiently read in generations of essays, his surname sounds a lot like wicked – and wicked he is. Adrian Lukis, who played him in Andrew Davies’ 1995 TV adaptation of
Pride and Prejudice, reprises the role in the perfectly pleasant
Being Mr Wickham, livestreamed this past weekend from the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds by the Original Theatre Company. It’s Wickham’s less-than-successful attempt to clear his name of the mud Austen dragged it through in her novel.