Sanditon

BBC commissions drama from award-winning playwright Janice Okoh

We Go Again (working title) features three siblings striving for optimism while concealing a dark secret.

When their mother disappears, the siblings will do anything to outmanoeuvre the authorities to stay away from social services and stay together as a family.

Described as “an irreverent portrait of black working-class teenage life”, the six-part drama explores growing up through council estates, big dreams, and with “thumping great heart.”

New Jane Austen adaptation Sanditon coming to ITV

Rose Williams as Charlotte Heywood (Credit: ITV)

The novel, written only months before Austen’s death, was never finished and consists of just eleven chapters.

The adaptation has been extended into an eight-part series starring Rose Williams (Curfew), Theo James (The Divergent series), Anne Reid (Last Tango in Halifax) and Kris Marshall (Death in Paradise).

Williams plays Charlotte Heywood, an impulsive and unconventional young woman who moves away from her rural hometown to the coastal resort of Sanditon, which is trying to reinvent itself as a fashionable retreat.

Andrew Davies adapts Jane Austen's unfinished novel Sanditon for ITV

Jane Austen

Sanditon, written just months before Austen’s death in 1817, tells the story of Charlotte Heywood, an impulsive and highly spirited young woman, and her spiky relationship with the wild and charming Sidney Parker.

After an accident sees the Heywood family transported from the rural hometown of Willingden to the up-and-coming seaside town of Sanditon, Charlotte is exposed to the intrigues of a town on the rise, and the people whose fortunes depend on its commercial success.