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New York-based playwright Caroline Franklin is adapting her stage play The Bronte Girls for television alongside Call the Midwife director Darcia Martin. Zdf Enterprises and the U.K.-based Parsonage Productions are behind the project, which tells a fictional account of the last summer the Bronte sisters spent together. The six-part series will be executive produced by Harvey Myman, Patty Lenahan Ishimoto, and Patrick Irwin, who previously collaborated on the British-Irish period crime drama Miss Scarlet and The Duke. The play takes place in 1835 and is set in the village of Haworth, England, and follows 19-year-old Charlotte Bronte, her 17-year-old sister Emily, and her 15-year-old sibling Anne as they spend their last summer together as teenagers. It imagines the trio’s adventures, the men in their lives, and the passion that saw them become literary icons. “With hormones raging, romances leading to sexual tension, political conflicts and guarded secrets, the...
- 2/15/2022
- TV Insider
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Zdf Enterprises and the U.K.-based Parsonage Productions are developing a new drama, “The Bronte Girls,” a fictional account of the last summer which the three Bronte sisters spent together.
The drama is based on the stage play of the same name by New York-based playwright Caroline Franklin (“Last Night at the Carmine”). Franklin will adapt the drama for the small screen with the British writer-director Darcia Martin.
The initial series, structured as a six-part drama, will be executive produced by Harvey Myman, Patty Lenahan Ishimoto and Patrick Irwin, who first worked together on A+E Networks’ U..K. period crime drama, “Miss Scarlet & The Duke.”
“The Bronte Girls” is set in the village of Haworth, Yorkshire, where Reverend Bronte’s three daughters, Charlotte (19), Emily (17) and 17-year-old Anne spent their last summer together as teenagers. Theirs was not a prim and proper youth, “The Bronte Girls” imagines, painting a...
The drama is based on the stage play of the same name by New York-based playwright Caroline Franklin (“Last Night at the Carmine”). Franklin will adapt the drama for the small screen with the British writer-director Darcia Martin.
The initial series, structured as a six-part drama, will be executive produced by Harvey Myman, Patty Lenahan Ishimoto and Patrick Irwin, who first worked together on A+E Networks’ U..K. period crime drama, “Miss Scarlet & The Duke.”
“The Bronte Girls” is set in the village of Haworth, Yorkshire, where Reverend Bronte’s three daughters, Charlotte (19), Emily (17) and 17-year-old Anne spent their last summer together as teenagers. Theirs was not a prim and proper youth, “The Bronte Girls” imagines, painting a...
- 2/15/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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