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A fifth series of Bridgerton is on the way (Ian West\/PA)<\/p>\nThe new season of Bridgerton will be led by a same-gender love story \u2013 a first for the series.<\/p>\n
The hit Netflix period drama will return for a fifth season and follow the love story between Lady Francesca Stirling, played by Hannah Dodd, and Masali Baduza\u2019s Michaela Stirling, according to the Netflix website Tudum.<\/p>\n
The series, created by showrunner Jess Brownell, will take place two years on from season four, which saw Lord John Stirling die, leaving Francesca widowed and his cousin Michaela without her closest relative and confidant.<\/p>\n
The series will follow introverted middle daughter Francesca as she decides to re-enter the marriage mart.<\/p>\n
However things do not go to plan when Michaela returns to London to tend to the Kilmartin estate, forcing Francesca to face her feelings.<\/p>\n
Dodd said: \u201c(Queer love stories) have traditionally been excluded from things like period dramas \u2014 and queer people did exist, have always existed, and will always exist.\u201d<\/p>\n
Baduza added: \u201cIt\u2019s been really special to have Jess guide us on this journey, because she\u2019s very excited about this story. What we really want to achieve is giving a realistic view of queer love onscreen and (giving them) a happily ever after.\u201d<\/p>\n
The costume drama, which is based on a series of books of the same name by Julia Quinn, follows the eight siblings of the Bridgerton family in their quest to find love.<\/p>\n
Brownell said: \u201cIt feels groundbreaking. Obviously, there are a lot of great shows that have depicted queer love. We\u2019re not the first by any means.<\/p>\n
A fifth series of Bridgerton is on the way (Ian West\/PA)<\/p>\n
\u201cBut to make an entire Bridgerton season about a sapphic relationship feels huge.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are still always grounding our love stories in the fact that this series is about joy and more than ever, Season 5 is going to be about yearning \u2026 Those of us who know what it\u2019s like to be in a sapphic relationship or have a sapphic crush understand that\u2019s so baked into the experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Known for its orchestral and string quartet covers of modern pop songs, Brownell also revealed the season will include a number of queer artists for its musical backdrop.<\/p>\n
The latest series followed the Cinderella-style love story between the second-eldest son of the Bridgerton clan, Benedict, played by Luke Thompson, and series newcomer Yerin Ha who played maid Sophie Baek.<\/p>\n
The show also stars Irish actress Nicola Coughlan, Wicked star Jonathan Bailey, and Sex Education\u2019s Simone Ashley.<\/p>\n
Season five is already in production and will film outside of London with a series six already confirmed to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new season of Bridgerton will be led by a same-gender love story \u2013 a first for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-364041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}