Following the show’s April debut, the HBO drama series Gentleman Jack has been renewed for a second season.
Gentleman Jack premieres same time as the U.S. every Tuesday at 10am, exclusively on HBO GO, and concludes its eight-episode first season on Tuesday, 11 June. The series tells the story of Anne Lister, a woman who had a passion for life and a mind for business, and bucked society’s expectations at every turn.
Set in the complex, changing world of 1832 Halifax, West Yorkshire – the cradle of the evolving Industrial Revolution – Gentleman Jack follows Anne Lister, who is determined to transform the fate of her faded ancestral home, Shibden Hall, by reopening the coal mines and marrying well. But the charismatic, single-minded, swashbuckling Lister – who dresses head-to-toe in black and charms her way into high society – has no intention of marrying a man.
Based in historical fact, the show examines Lister’s relationships with her family, servants, tenants and industrial rivals and, most importantly, would-be wife. The real-life Anne Lister’s story was recorded in the five million words of her diaries, and the most intimate details of her life, once hidden in a secret code, have been decoded and revealed for the series.
Season one co-stars include: Sophie Rundle (Bodyguard, Peaky Blinders) as Ann Walker, the wealthy heiress on whom Anne Lister sets her sights as a prospective wife; Gemma Whelan (HBO’s Game of Thrones; The Moorside) as Anne Lister’s sister, Marian; Timothy West (Last Tango in Halifax, Bleak House) as Jeremy Lister, the sisters’ father; and Gemma Jones (God’s Own Country, Bridget Jones’s Diary) as Aunt Anne Lister.
Season one credits: Gentleman Jack is directed by Sally Wainwright, Sarah Harding and Jennifer Perrott; produced by Lookout Point for HBO and BBC One; executive producers, Sally Wainwright, Faith Penhale and Laura Lankester for Lookout Point and Ben Irving for BBC One; producer, Phil Collinson; written by Sally Wainwright.
