Gentleman Jack (TV series)
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Gentleman Jack is a historical drama television series created by Sally Wainwright.[2] [lower-alpha 2] Set in the 1830s in Yorkshire, it stars Suranne Jones[5] as landowner and industrialist Anne Lister. The series is based on the collected diaries of Lister, running to an estimated 5 million words with about a sixth in secret code,[5] documenting a lifetime of lesbian relationships. A portion of the diaries were decoded and transcribed by Helena Whitbread[6] as well as other transcribers. The research and transcription carried out for Sally Wainwright’s ‘Gentleman Jack’ has amounted to hundreds of thousands of words of new transcription of the diary. [7]
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Genre | Historical drama |
Created by | Sally Wainwright |
Written by | Sally Wainwright |
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Theme music composer | Murray Gold |
Ending theme | "Gentleman Jack" by O'Hooley & Tidow[1] |
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Original language | English |
No. of series | 2 |
No. of episodes | 16 (list of episodes) |
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Producer | Phil Collinson |
Production location | United Kingdom |
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Running time | 60 minutes[lower-alpha 1] |
Production company | Lookout Point TV |
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Release | 22 April 2019 (2019-04-22) – 13 June 2022 (2022-06-13) |
Gentleman Jack is a BBC One and HBO co-production.[8] The series premiered on 22 April 2019 in the United States,[9] and on 19 May 2019 in the United Kingdom.[10] It was renewed by the BBC on 23 May 2019 for a second series,[11] which was shown on BBC One from 10 April[12] to 29 May 2022 and on HBO from 25 April to 13 June 2022.[13] In July 2022, co-production company HBO said it would not be proceeding with a third series. The BBC announced that they wanted to continue with the programme, but they first need to find a production partner to replace HBO.[14]