Ladies will rejoice as the first one to open the newly arrived spring season on the small screens is the second season of
SANDITON which is landing at
Britbox March 21st and as soon as tonight on
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for the viewers in USA. Based on
Jane Austen’s final and incomplete novel, written only months before her death in 1817 and set in a developing little seaside resort for rich snobs and those who want to become one, it tells the
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story of impulsive, brash and ungratefully superficial and impolite Charlotte Heywood (
RoseWilliams) and her quest to use rich people for her own gain. Immature, irresponsible and arrogant, she definitely remains one of
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Tom Weston Jones joins the cast as Colonel Francis Lennox
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television's most despised female characters, so the audience will again have to cheer for the good guys in the show to refuse her opportunistic advances. Theo James' Sydney has successfully managed to avoid that harpy in the first
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Young Maxim Ays plays Captain William Carter
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season but is now, according to some of the promo clips, gone missing, probably lost somewhere at the sea, sadly, but even that is a better destiny
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Jack Fox returns as snobbish Sir Edward Denham
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than ending up with a self obsessed wife. The series will also air on
ITV later on this year
for Brits and the third season has also been ordered.
the action nine months later, as the town grows in popularity, and features characters familiar and new. Charlotte (
Rose Williams) taking up the role of governess to Augusta Wilson
(Eloise Webb), Alexander Colbourne’s ward
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Alexander Vlahos plays the new painter in Sanditon
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and niece, who at the age of 17 pushes against authority and soon gives Charlotte a run for her money. Charlotte’s spirited younger sister, Alison Heywood (
Rosie Graham) comes to Sanditon to pursue her own romantic
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Frank Blake, on the right, plays Captain Declan Fraser
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dream, and joined by The Parkers, the second series promises new romances, friendships and challenges for the residents as the Army makes Sanditon their new base. The Parkers are back, as Tom Parker (
Kris Marshall) strives to
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Ben Lloyd Hughes also stars in the new season
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rebuild Sanditon. But there are many unforeseen issues awaiting him, while the secrets and lies of the dysfunctional Denhams continue to rock the foundations of the sunny seaside town. And, in her last summer season before
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Handsome and desirable soldiers have arrived to Sanditon
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turning 21, Georgiana Lambe (
Crystal Clarke), keen to forge her own identity, gets up to mischief in the name of love… but will she run the risk of being lonelier than ever before? When it comes to the new hunks in town, we
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There will be lots of magnificent scenes with lads in uniforms
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have Alexander Colbourne (
Ben Lloyd Hughes), a mysterious resident with a complex past, and also the self-assured war hero Colonel Francis Lennox
(Tom Weston Jones). Charlotte’s spirited younger sister, Alison, will
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The Parkers are back too with old ambitions and new troubles
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quickly find romance in the shape of charming Captain William Carter (
Maxim Ays). There is also the courageous Captain Declan Fraser (
Frank Blake) and the flamboyant Charles Lockhart
(Alexander Vlahos), who
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The series will also air on ITV sometime later this spring
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plans to paint the fashionable residents.
Anne Reid returns as Lady Denham,
Jack Fox as Sir Edward Denham and
Charlotte Spencer as Esther Denham! Check out the new trailer below and tell us what you think?