Jane Austen only completed 11 chapters of her unfinished novel. Those plotlines largely comprise the first episode, Andrew Davies fleshed out the rest of the series himself.
Prior to its US release, ITV who funded the series canceled it. It was later picked up by Britbox with a linear TV broadcast of the second and third seasons airing on ITV, the show's original home.
Premiered with audience figures of 5.37 million, a series high.