Netflix's ongoing adaptation of the Julia Quinn romance novels.
Bridgerton
It sometimes seems like Shonda Rhimes never quite realized how popular Bridgerton would be. The thoroughly American idealistic fantasy of Regency England was a massive smash in its first season, forcing the production to hastily announce the actor playing Season 1 leading man Simon Basset, Regé-Jean Page, was never signed
Netflix
Netflix kicked off the New Year with an update on one of its most hotly anticipated 2023 properties, the Bridgerton spin-off focused on the story of a young Queen Charlotte. Uncreatively titled Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, the streamer has been teasing this spin-off since before the second season of
Jane Austen
Since we’re only a few weeks from Jane Austen’s birthday (December 16), let’s start with a BBC documentary, Pride and Prejudice: Having a Ball, currently available on Acorn TV. Released in 2013, to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice, the documentary
Drama
Far too many fans of period drama fans slept on Black Sails, a series that technically served as a prequel of sorts to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel Treasure Island but mainly was a rollicking period adventure set during the Golden Age of Pirates during the early eighteenth
Drama
Netflix has been teasing its untitled spinoff prequel featuring Queen Charlotte since before the release of Bridgerton Season 2. Filming for the new series began shortly after Season 2's debut and wrapped not long after Season 3 officially went into production. Ahead of its yearly TUDUM event, the
Drama
Bridgerton Season 3 is getting underway, and it is apparently "Polin" season as the 'ton returns to London for another round of the marriage mart. The Netflix series based on the Julia Quinn novels has thrown aside any pretense of following the books as it grows in
Drama
The Queen Charlotte spinoff of Bridgerton has not yet announced a title for the series, but the casting rolls on. The initial announcement debuted the actors playing the leading roles of Young Queen Charlotte and Young Agatha Danbury. But the younger version of Ruth Gemmell's character, Lady Violet
Drama
The Bridgerton universe began as a TV show adapted by an American producer, Shonda Rhimes, from a series of novels by an American writer, Julia Quinn. But the result was as British as teatime, thanks to some brilliant casting. It also made one more smart alteration, adding in royal couple
Drama
This may be Stranger Things weekend over at Netflix, but across the pond in London, cameras are starting to roll on one of the streaming service's biggest British hits, Bridgerton. Actress Nicola Coughlan (Derry Girls), who plays Penelope Featherington, put on her Lady Whistledown bonnet and dropped the
Drama
Since the end of Season 2, there have been rumors that Bridgerton would start pulling away in earnest from the book's source material in the next two installments. This was probably inevitable, considering how much the show changed up from the second book in Julia Quinn's
Drama
Bridgerton came in with a grand plan: To adapt a series of eight novels (nine if you include the book of epilogues), produced to the level one might see a drama about dragons and death. So far, the show has been a hit, but it's not without its
Drama
Bridgerton has barely had its second season out for a week, and the streaming service is already prepping to make more. Not Bridgerton Season 3, though that is expected to start filming later this year or early next. This is the spinoff prequel series focused on the primary character addition