The screenwriter says he used all the material from Austen’s work in the first half of the first episode.
Source: Jane Austen’s Sanditon ‘sexed up’ in Andrew Davies adaptation
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critics noted that Davies’s focus on sex and money and Austen’s wry, incisive humour and the “deft” characterisation, prevented the television adaptation from “descending into the realm of a nicely-costumed, brilliantly-photographed melodrama”.
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