Filming Is Finally Underway For Gentleman Jack Season 2 With Suranne Jones And Sophie Rundle
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While we're extremely excited that so many new TV shows have finally started filming again after Covid-19 caused productions to halt, this could be the best ones yet.
Yep, production is finally underway for the highly-anticipated second season of Gentleman Jack, and Suranne Jones is back in the title role of Anne Lister.
She will star alongside Sophie Rundle, who is reprising her role as Anne's love interest and now-wife, Ann Walker.
Filming is underway on the second series of Sally Wainwright's award-winning @BBCOne hit #GentlemanJack, with cameras rolling all this week in Halifax: https://t.co/WKa1sJ1r3x pic.twitter.com/2gtkhylGik
- BBC Press Office (@bbcpress) November 6, 2020
BBC shared the exciting news to Twitter, marking the cast's return to Halifax for COVID-safe filming with an image of Jones dressed in Anne's signature top hat, in addition to a face mask emblazoned with the words: "What would Anne Lister do?"
The period drama is based on the extraordinary real-life story of "the first modern lesbian" Lister, a Yorkshire landowner in the nineteenth century who meticulously documented her life in coded diaries.
Series two will again use her real-life diaries as its source, with every part of Lister's story based in historical fact and the five million words she wrote in her journals.
The previous season finale saw Anne Lister and the wealthy Ann Walker secretly marry in York, before they began planning marital life together.
Sharing the synopsis of the new season, BBC says: "Yorkshire, 1834. All eyes are on Anne Lister and Ann Walker as they set up home together at Shibden Hall as wife and wife, determined to combine their estates and become a power couple.
Much of the original Gentleman Jack cast are also reprising their roles, including Gemma Whelan as Marian Lister, Gemma Jones as Aunt Anne Lister, and Timothy West as Jeremy Lister.
"Anne Lister's entrepreneurial spirit frightens the locals as much as her unconventional love life and, with Halifax on the brink of revolution, her refusal to keep a low profile becomes provocative and dangerous."
Speaking of the new series, screenwriter Sally Wainwright says: "I'm more thrilled than I've ever been about anything that we're returning with a new series of Gentleman Jack.
"We've had such an extraordinary response from so many viewers all over the world about the first series, and I can't wait to show them what we've come up with this time."
And we can't wait to see it!
While we don't know the official launch date yet, you can binge all episodes of season one on BBC iPlayer now so you're up to date for when season two finally drops.