'Sanditon' Season 3 Will Premiere in 2023

Sanditon Season 2 may have only just concluded on-air, but fans can breathe easy this time around: there's no agonizing question of whether or not the story of the seaside resort town will continue.

The announcement of the period drama's surprise resurrection from the dead in the spring of 2021 came complete with the news that it was being renewed for two new seasons instead of just one. But what many fans may not realize is that both those seasons were filmed back-to-back, which means that Season 3 is already safe in the proverbial can and headed to a screen near you in 2023.

Granted, there's no official word on precisely when in 2023 the show will return. However, the smart money is likely on a similar springtime berth as Season 2. It suits the show tonally, and All Creatures Great and Small essentially has that January Sunday night slot where Downton Abbey used to live on lock.

PBS dropped a brief teaser following the Season 2 Masterpiece finale, which is literally fifteen seconds long and tells us nothing we couldn't have already guessed, but it likely thrilled fans still smarting from the series' initial cancellation to their cores. The story isn't over. Huzzah!