'Sherwood' Adds Rosalie Craig, Joe Dempsie, Kirby Howell-Baptiste & More for Season 3
'Sherwood' Season 3 has begun filming in the U.K. with a brand new family at the center of the story.
The growing popularity of BritBox since the summer of 2024 has been one of the few success stories for the BBC in the last decade. It's also one of the few bright spots for British television streaming in America, as PBS struggles to find replacement funding with the end of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. But my personal reason for loving that people seem to have discovered BritBox exists is that I can finally get y'all to watch Sherwood.
Lacy once referred to the adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford as "The Avengers of Period Drama," because it starred nearly every high-profile BBC actor working in the late aughts, teaming up to give us the best possible version of a beloved novel. Cranford isn't the only time that's happened – both Hollow Crown trilogies did the same in 2012 and 2016.
Sherwood is the first major BBC series of the 2020s to take that route, and with good reason. The show was created and written by award-winning playwright James Graham, one of the best in the business today. The series itself is also a brilliant political matryoshka: come for the dramatization of the biggest manhunt in the U.K., stay for the deep dive into how Thatcher's destruction of the miners' strike in the early 1980s still permeates the northern redwall towns where they occurred.
