Gentleman Jack (TV series)

Gentleman Jack
Genre Drama
Created by Sally Wainwright
Directed by Sally Wainwright
Country of origin
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
Production
Executive producer(s)
  • Sally Wainwright
  • Faith Penhale
  • Laura Lankester
Producer(s) Phil Collinson
Camera setup Arri Alexa Mini & Cooke Optics Panchro & Anamorphic/i lenses (supplied by No Drama, UK)
Production company(s) Lookout Point
Release
Original network
Picture format 16:9 HDTV
External links
Production website

Gentleman Jack is an upcoming British-American historical drama series created by Sally Wainwright.[lower-alpha 1] Set in 1832 and starring Suranne Jones as noted landowner and industrialist Anne Lister, the series will premiere on BBC One in the United Kingdom and HBO in the United States.[1] The program was originally titled "Shibden Hall".[2]

Overview

In 1832, Anne Lister (Suranne Jones) returns to Shibden Hall her ancestral home in West Yorkshire after an extended period of travel, study and social climbing. The series explores the relationships and interests Lister develops in her quest to transform her ancestral home, her business interests and find herself a wife.[3][1]

Production

In November 2016, screenwriter Sally Wainwright was awarded the £30,000 screenwriting fellowship grant from the charitable organisation the Wellcome Trust, in partnership with Film4 and the British Film Institute.[4] Wainwright disclosed to the media that she was writing a drama series about the landowner, industrialist, and intellectual Anne Lister and would use the grant to further her research.[5] In March 2017, it was announced that BBC One and the American cable network HBO had commissioned the eight-part series, provisionally titled Shibden Hall, after Lister's ancestral home.[3] Wainwright was additionally announced as the series' director, and will serve as executive producer alongside Piers Wenger and Faith Penhale.[3] Wainwright, a native of Yorkshire, had grown up in the environs of Shibden Hall and had had ambitions to write a drama based on Anne Lister for over 20 years.[3][6] She described Lister as "a gift to a dramatist" and "one of the most exuberant, thrilling and brilliant women in British history".[3] The series is based on the collective diaries of Anne Lister's - containing over 4 million words and written largely in code.[3][6]

In July 2017, the series was renamed Gentleman Jack, and Suranne Jones was announced as having been cast in the central role of Lister.[1] Jones had previously starred in the Wainwright scripted projects Dead Clever, Unforgiven, and Scott & Bailey. Jones relished the chance to be directed for the first time by Wainwright, anticipating an "immediate, exciting, and new" connection between the pair whilst Wainwright deemed Jones to be capable of embodying the "boldness, subtlety, energy and humour" required to depict Lister.[7]

Notes

  1. ↑ Gentleman Jack: The Life and Times of Anne Lister - The Official Companion to the BBC Series will be published in 2019 alongside the programme.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Petski, Denise (July 19, 2017). "Suranne Jones To Star In Sally Wainright Drama Series For HBO & BBC One". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  2. ↑ Gove, Ed (5 April 2017). "Happy Valley's Sally Wainwright: "I write people I want to be, not who I am"". Royal Television Society. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Media Centre (5 March 2017). "BBC One and HBO announce original new drama series Shibden Hall from award-winning writer Sally Wainwright" (Press release). BBC. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  4. ↑ "Sally Wainwright awarded Screenwriting Fellowship". Wellcome Trust. 23 November 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  5. ↑ Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (24 November 2016). "Sally Wainwright to write show about diarist Anne Lister for BBC". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  6. 1 2 Birnbaum, Debra (4 March 2017). "HBO, BBC One Order 'Shibden Hall' From Sally Wainwright". Variety. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  7. ↑ Media Centre (20 July 2017). "Suranne Jones to star in Gentleman Jack, Sally Wainwright's new drama for BBC One and HBO" (Press release). BBC. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  • Gentleman Jack on IMDb
  • Gentleman Jack at HBO
  • Wainwright, Sally; Choma, Anne (2019). Gentleman Jack: The Life and Times of Anne Lister The Official Companion to the BBC Series. London, United Kingdom: Ebury Publishing. ISBN 978-1785944031. </ref>
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