![]() ![]() “That was Andrew,” Williams laughs, of Andrew Davies, who adapted the show, and the man once referred to as the “grandfather of the sexed-up period drama”. ROSE WILLIAMS SERIESOne newspaper referred to Sanditon’s first series as “Love Island in breeches… and out of them too!” They’re very different in tone and budget but yes, huge thanks to Bridgerton.”Īnd like the Netflix behemoth, the first season of Sanditon - which also stars Theo James, Kris Marshall, Anne Reid and Jack Fox - raised eyebrows for being steamier than seasoned Austen followers were perhaps used to. “It’s a hugely commercially successful Regency show. A petition to save the show amassed more than 88,000 signatures.Ī return to Austen’s world may well have been helped by another show around the same time, which might have given commissioners second thoughts? “I would say yes,” Williams replies. ![]() ![]() Outrage engulfed social media – one member of the Sisterhood told the New York Times the group had goals of sending “20,000 tweets a day” – and they started a letter writing campaign to the producers at ITV as well as at PBS’ Masterpiece, which broadcast the show in the US. There was particular support from bonnet-fanciers in America, and, closer to home, a group who called themselves the “Sanditalians”. “There was an amazing response from the self-titled Sanditon Sisterhood of women across the world, which I think is really sweet,” says Rose Williams, who stars in the leading role of the headstrong, independent-minded Charlotte Heywood in the show. The six-part series based on the writer’s unfinished final novel may not have hit the ratings the channel had hoped for, but it created a passionate following around the world, and they mobilised. Hen ITV’s racy Jane Austen adaptation Sanditon was cancelled in 2019 after the first series, fans were not happy. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT. ![]()
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