Jane Austen, Ahead of Her Time?

Eagerly anticipating tonight's new adaptation of "Persuasion" on PBS, I checked the listing online to see if they would show the whole story at once, or break it into several episodes.

Imagine my surprise, when clicking "more info," to read of this unexpected twist in the Elliott family's fortunes in Yahoo TV's brief synopsis:

"Martin's gay father moves in; with Kevin McCarthy, Paul Dooley."