not needing much persuading

As someone who rarely hears about things I might want to watch on tv, and who inevitably forgets to watch them unless reminded, I'm writing this as much for myself as for readers who share two of my interests: The new Jane Austen adaptations are coming to US tv on "Masterpiece Theatre" starting tonight, and the first one is Persuasion.

I hadn't known the casting, so I was pleased to see that Anne's father ("Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character," says Austen: "vanity of person and of situation.") is being played by Tony Head. (And that sound is the other shoe dropping: I did say two interests.) Alice Krige as Lady Russell may also be known to some sf viewers.

I know it'll be imperfect, and if you go to IMDB user comments you can read Brits creebing about it, so my advice is: don't. See it yourself first.