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EXCLUSIVE: BBC Select has ordered a 2nd play of Queens That Changed nan World.
The history doc bid will item six formidable humanities female rulers, namely Maria Theresa, Mary Queen of Scots, Marie Antoinette, Rani of Jhansi, Agrippina nan Younger and Queen Charlotte to research what drove them, really they asserted their authority, and really being a female coud beryllium to beryllium a concealed weapon.
The show, which is presently successful production, comes from Woodcut Media and supplier Sphere Abacus, which has pre-sold play 2 to BBC Studios America, SBS successful Australia, Sky Germany and Czech Television.
The bid uses archive footage and stylised recreations, and master study from historians and academics to floor plan nan emergence to powerfulness of each queen, while investigating cardinal aspects of their reign.
Series shaper is Hayley Rhodes, and executive producers are Kate Beal and Angie Cox.
“This bid takes a caller look astatine nan lives and motivations of immoderate of history’s astir powerful women. These are women who’ve often been seen arsenic one-dimensional, for illustration power-hungry, aliases sexually voracious, aliases vulnerable victims of men’s machinations,” said Rhodes.
“We’ve been capable to overgarment a image that’s overmuch much nuanced, showing really these Queens weathered storms and navigated nan difficult dynamics of being a female ruler successful a male-dominated world.”
Jonathan Ford, Managing Director, Sphere Abacus added: “We’re delighted to beryllium distributing nan 2nd play of this unsocial and fascinating documentary series. Season 2 will springiness viewers further, unrivalled penetration into nan lives of beardown female leaders who ruled during cardinal times successful world history and analyse nan long-lasting effect their decisions had connected those periods.
Producer Woodcut is down nan likes of Confessions of a Female Serial Killer, The Murder of Meredith, World’s Most Evil Killers/Britain’s Most Evil Killers (10 seasons, 200 episodes) and Fiennes: Return to nan Wild and Fiennes: Return to nan Nile, while Bell Media-owned supplier Sphere Abacus is known nan seller of Heated Rivalry and Leaving Neverland.
