Well, this is what might happen when you do a co-production: your partner might air the series you did together before you!
HBO has released a trailer and also Monday, April 22nd as the start date for new eight part drama
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Jack will first visit USA before returning to UK |
GENTLEMAN JACK and
BBC hasn't even set airing date for UK yet (but we know it will be sometime this spring)! 1832 set mini series will see
Suranne Jones playing a lesbian heiress who behaved, governed her lands and loved like a man! She was also known as a diarist who chronicled her life in extensive journals.
GENTLEMAN JACKfollows real life landowner Anne Lister (
Suranne Jones) from Halifix, who not only had no intention of marrying a man, but also became one of the first modern lesbians and also one of the first lesbians to officially (not legally) marry another woman, wealthy heiress Ann Walker (
Sophie Rundle). The
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The series was created by Happy Valley's Sally Wainwright |
series, which also stars
Joe Armstrong, Peter Davison, Shaun Dooley, Gemma Jones, Tom Lewis, Timothy West, follows Anne Lister as she returns to West Yorkshire in 1832, determined to transform the fate of her faded ancestral home Shibden Hall and the mines she inherited. She was
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The story is based on Anne Lister's diaries written in more than 4 million words, large part of it in secret code. |
considered largely scandalous due to her public relationships with women, a penchant for masculine fashion sense and business prowess during the Industrial Revolution but was still a popular figure widely known as Gentleman Jack!