Post by MagdaFR on Mar 22, 2021 12:49:02 GMT
They're making this an anthology series but without any of the talent behind AVES.
The BBC and Amazon have signed up The Crown’s Claire Foy and WandaVision star Paul Bettany to headline the long-awaited second season of A Very English Scandal.
Deadline revealed last March that Sarah Phelps, the British scribe behind Agatha Christie adaptations including The ABC Murders and The Pale Horse, had signed up to write Season 2. The three-part second will be titled A Very British Scandal given its Scottish subject, and production is set to commence later this year.
A Very British Scandal will move on from the story of Jeremy Thorpe to become an anthology series, focusing on a new crisis that gripped the British establishment. The second season centers on a 1963 sex scandal involving Margaret Campbell, the Duchess of Argyll. During a messy divorce from her second husband, he seized images of Campbell performing a sex act on an unknown man and she became known as “The Dirty Duchess.” Foy and Bettany will play the Duchess and Duke respectively.I have no problem with the actors although none of them is from Scotland, I think. I have problems with Sarah Phelps. I didn't like much her adaptations of Agatha Christie.
Also, I know nothing about this story but it isn't the same kind of story. What adultery has to do with a prominent politician hiding his homosexuality and plotting a murder?
The BBC and Amazon have signed up The Crown’s Claire Foy and WandaVision star Paul Bettany to headline the long-awaited second season of A Very English Scandal.
Deadline revealed last March that Sarah Phelps, the British scribe behind Agatha Christie adaptations including The ABC Murders and The Pale Horse, had signed up to write Season 2. The three-part second will be titled A Very British Scandal given its Scottish subject, and production is set to commence later this year.
A Very British Scandal will move on from the story of Jeremy Thorpe to become an anthology series, focusing on a new crisis that gripped the British establishment. The second season centers on a 1963 sex scandal involving Margaret Campbell, the Duchess of Argyll. During a messy divorce from her second husband, he seized images of Campbell performing a sex act on an unknown man and she became known as “The Dirty Duchess.” Foy and Bettany will play the Duchess and Duke respectively.
Also, I know nothing about this story but it isn't the same kind of story. What adultery has to do with a prominent politician hiding his homosexuality and plotting a murder?
I just read the comments. I agree with this one:
A Very English Scandal was an excellent miniseries, but is the “brand” of that name so well known that it makes sense to apply it to a completely unrelated miniseries from a completely new creative team? This branding concept only works if the items being branded are pretty much the same in content and, most importantly, quality.