For a while the fate of "Sanditon" was not certain. The show's original broadcaster ITV cut bait on the seaside period piece due to poor ratings in the U.K., although it fared well enough on "Masterpiece" to garner enough support for ITV-owned BritBox and the venerable PBS series to clear it for a second and third season.
There remained the matter of the first run's unexpected level of randiness which, while not quite on par with "Bridgerton" did include a rather explicit scene of a nice girl being positively ruined on a marble floor. Loyal Jane Austen fans were shocked – shocked! – that the series' creator Andrew Davies took the author's subtle sensual references that far. But much about the first seasons slid further into melodrama than one otherwise expects of a Regency tale.
