JANUARY 12 - 18, 2020 staradvertiser.com SEASIDE ROMANCE PBS takes viewers back to the Regency era where the lively and unconventional Charlotte Heywood (Rose Williams) makes her way to a quirky seaside village in the fi rst major adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfi nished novel Sanditon. There, Charlotte is exposed to a world of intrigue, dalliances, high society and colorful characters, such as the mysterious and charming Sidney Parker (Theo James). Airing Sunday, Jan. 12, on PBS. ON THE COVER | SANDITON Love is in the air Jane Austen heads to PBS Admittedly, an unfinished book, even by one intrigue, dalliances, high society and colorful of the most popular writers in history, doesn’t characters, like the mysteriously charming with ‘Sanditon’ seem like an obvious choice for a TV adapta- and brooding Sidney Parker (Theo James, tion. But on Sunday, Jan. 12, PBS will take you “Divergent,” 2014), Tom’s brother. Naturally, By Francis Babin back to the Regency era and introduce you sparks fly between the adventure-seeking TV Media to some wonderfully colorful characters as Charlotte and dapper-yet-unpredictable “Sanditon” comes to life on PBS as part of its Sidney, and like all great romantic stories, ext year marks the 20th anniversary “Mastepiece” program. many obstacles stand in the way of their of one of the most groundbreaking After the great success of last year’s “Les relationship. Nachievements in cinema history. The Misérables,” legendary scribe Andrew Davies Over the course of the eight-episode limited first chapter in J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic Middle- has once again set his sights on a lofty work series, we are introduced to a bevy of curious Earth trilogy, “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellow- from one of the greatest and most influential and unpredictable characters that Charlotte ship of the Ring,” was released in late 2001 to authors of all time. When Austen came down could never imagine meeting back home. As critical and commercial acclaim. After decades with a mysterious illness in 1817, she decided Tom, a kind family man, works towards his of failed big-screen adaptions, the fantasy to take her mind off her failing health and fo- dream of transforming the sleepy seaside series was eventually brought to life by Peter cus her attention on something lighthearted village into something bigger and better, the Jackson (“They Shall Not Grow Old,” 2018) and and cheery: she began work on “Sanditon.” townspeople do not always co-operate. He forever changed the Hollywood landscape. Unfortunately, she never finished her witty hopes to turn the village into a fashionable But there are many works of Tolkien that novel and died only months after starting. health resort and partners with the wealthy have never received the Hollywood treatment, In this “Masterpiece” adaptation, the Lady Denham (Anne Reid, “The Aeronauts,” works that are arguably just as important lively, impulsive and unconventional 2019), a twice-widowed woman who lives and relevant as the Lord of the Rings series. Charlotte Heywood (Rose Williams, “Reign”) with her ward, Clara Brereton (Lily Sacofsky, There are many authors in this same boat, makes her way from her rural home “Summer of Rockets”). and one of the most notable is Jane Austen. of Willingden to the coastal fishing While promoting the series last year, writer “Pride and Prejudice” has been recreated village of Sanditon. Thanks to a ser- Davies discussed what brought him to the hundreds of times for television, the big endipitous mishap, the ambitious project but also what viewers could expect: screen and the stage (the 1995 BBC Tom Parker (Kris Marshall, “Death in “Jane Austen managed to write only a frag- production has yet to be topped, Paradise”) makes the acquaintance ment of her last novel before she died — but in my opinion). “Emma,” “Sense of the respectable Heywood what a fragment. ‘Sanditon’ tells the story of and Sensibility,” “Mansfield family and invites their eldest the transformation of a sleepy fishing village Park,” “Persuasion” — all daughter, Charlotte, for an ex- into a fashionable seaside resort, with a spir- of these wonderful novels tended stay at Sanditon. There, ited young heroine, a couple of entrepreneurial have been adapted in some she attempts to reinvent herself brothers, some dodgy financial dealings, a form for global audiences. as she is exposed to a world of West Indian heiress and quite a bit of nude But Austen’s “Sanditon” has bathing. It’s been a privilege and a thrill for me been largely ignored by the Theo James in a scene from to develop “Sanditon” into a TV drama for a “Sanditon” film and television industries. modern audience.” 2 STAR CHANNELS JANUARy 12 - 18, 2020 BEST BETS Sunday Tuesday with a goat. Aaron Glenane and Cristina Rodlo star. The Outsider This Is Us HBO 7 p.m. KHNL 8 p.m. Thursday Based on the novel by Stephen King, this new Randall (Sterling K. Brown) heads out to Los Superstore series revolves around Detective Anderson’s Angeles to with Rebecca (Mandy Moore) KHNL 7 p.m. (Ben Mendelsohn) attempt to solve the grue- in a new episode of this popular drama. 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