Starz is Developing an Eleanor of Aquitaine Drama
Cable network Starz is rapidly becoming a go-to location for female-focused historical period dramas. From its trio of dramas based on Philippa Gregory novels (The White Queen, The White Princess, and The Spanish Princess) to the upcoming series based on the early life of Princess Elizabeth Tudor (Becoming Elizabeth), the network has been busy offering a variety of female perspectives on history for some time now. And it doesn't seem as though it's going to stop any time soon.
The network is currently developing a new drama based on the life of the famous Eleanor of Aquitaine. The project comes from A Discovery of Witches writer Susie Conklin and Playground Entertainment and is one of multiple series that Starz is working on as part of a proposed "extraordinary women of history" anthology, which sort of fits nicely with many of the previous efforts in this vein on the channel.
The Eleanor of Aquitaine series will be based on the work of historian Alison Weir - her biography Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life and its companion novel Captive Queen, which, although a fictional account of her story, is a pretty entertaining read.
