{"id":759115,"date":"2026-06-25T00:36:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T00:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/759115\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T00:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T00:36:35","slug":"the-other-bennet-sisters-happy-ending-to-get-a-little-complicated-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/759115\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Bennet Sister’s happy ending to get a little complicated this Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

It may be a Christmas without Doctor Who<\/a>, but anglophiles need not abandon all hope for some new, festive television. BritBox announced this morning that it will air a three-part Christmas special for The Other Bennet Sister<\/a>, coming after the series\u2019 first season premiered last month. Ella Bruccoleri, who stars as Mary (the other sister in question), is slated to return for the special, as are writer Sarah Quintrell and director Asim Abbasi. Today\u2019s press release didn\u2019t confirm any other cast members, but promised that \u201ca host of other familiar faces from the series\u201d will return for the specials, which are set to shoot this summer in Wales.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If no one else, we can assume that D\u00f3nal Finn\u2019s Mr. Hayward will be in the mix come Christmastime, given that he and Mary married at the end of that first season. But just because Mary got something of a fairy tale ending doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019ll be all smooth sailing going forward. \u201cThese Christmas specials give us the chance to spend a little more time with characters audiences have taken to their hearts, and to explore what happens after the wedding bells fade and real life begins,\u201d says Bad Wolf CEO Jane Tranter in a press statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What this means for the future of the series is still fairly unclear; a second season of The Other Bennet Sister hasn\u2019t been confirmed, but the Christmas episodes would indicate that Bad Wolf and BritBox are at least open to more. The first season is based on Janice Hadlow\u2019s novel of the same name, but running out of source material for a TV has seldom stopped an ambitious studio, whether it\u2019s Big Little Lies or Game Of Thrones or The Handmaid\u2019s Tale or, well, The Other Bennet Sister. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It may be a Christmas without Doctor Who, but anglophiles need not abandon all hope for some new,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-759115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}