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Sanditon is a British historical period drama television series adapted by Andrew Davies from an unfinished manuscript by Jane Austen and starring Rose Williams and Theo James in the lead roles. Set during the Regency era, the plot follows a young and naive heroine as she navigates the new seaside resort of Sanditon.
The series first aired on ITV in the United Kingdom on 25 August 2019 in eight parts, and on PBS in the United States on 12 January 2020, which supports the production, as part of its Masterpiece anthology.
Due to the unfinished nature of the novel (Austen only completed eleven chapters in her lifetime), the original work is used for the majority of the first episode, and then Davies used the developed characters to complete the story.[1] The novel is set in a seaside town during a time of social change. At the time of her death in 1817 Austen had completed 24,000 words of the novel.
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A chance accident brings Charlotte Heywood to Sanditon, a seaside resort on the cusp of dramatic change. Spirited and unconventional, Charlotte is initially keen to experience everything the town has to offer but is then shocked by its scheming and ambitious inhabitants and intrigued by the secrets they share. When Charlotte is tactlessly forthright about the family of enthusiastic entrepreneur Tom Parker, she immediately clashes with his handsome but wild younger brother Sidney. Amidst the rival suitors and unexpected danger, can Charlotte and Sidney see past each other's flaws and find love?
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Many of the Sanditon scenes were filmed in Somerset including the seaside towns of Clevedon, Brean and Weston Super Mare. Dyrham Park near Bath, Somerset was used as the location for Sanditon House. The majority of interior filming took place on interior and exterior sets built at The Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol.[3]
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Critical reception has been mixed.[4] Some UK media outlets reported that viewers were shocked at the depictions of sex and nudity in the opening episode, considering it to be untrue to the works of Jane Austen.[5]Many viewers critiqued the ending as unusual and very “un-Austen-like”. Viewers claim Austen would have liked a happy ending for all characters, as she has happy endings in all of her stories, however, this could have been a set up for a second season.[6][7][8]
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The WeScreenplay Television Screenwriting Competition’s mission is to discover and expose new talent to the entertainment industry. The Television Competition strives to provide industry exposure and support to television screenwriters who are looking to have their stories told.
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The Grand Prize script in each category is awarded with cash grants and promoted to producers, agents, and managers through email distribution from WeScreenplay, and all Finalists are publicly recognized through the WeScreenplay website.
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The HUMANITAS New Voices competition looks for well-written scripts with compelling stories and developed characters that explore and showcase HUMANITAS values. Those values are:
Every year, NEW VOICES accepts hundreds of script submissions and selects up to five writers through a rigorous selection process. Candidates are asked to submit a writing sample and participate in personal interviews.
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After the script is honed, HUMANITAS sends it to a studio or network executive. The winning writers are recognized at the annual HUMANITAS Prize and are awarded $7,500.
8. Script Pipeline
The 2019 Script Pipeline TV Writing Competition heads into its 12th season, continuing the search for up-and-coming talent and connecting them with top producers, agencies, and managers.
This circulation process has resulted in over $6 million in screenplays and TV pilots sold from competition finalists and Recommend writers since 2003, including most recently Tripper Clancy’s Stuber, Evan Daugherty’s Snow White and the Huntsman, and numerous other former finalists who have sold material to networks and studios as a direct result of Script Pipeline’s facilitation.
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