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When Bridgerton season 3 was announced, many presumed the story would revolve around the next book in the series.

Based on Julia Quinn’s Romancing Mister Bridgerton Season 3 of Netflix and Shondaland’s Bridgerton watches the friends-to-lovers romance between Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) bloom. While their book comes fourth in the series after Benedict’s love story, the show has moved their installment up in the order of Bridgerton sibling romances. Francesca’s (Hannah Dodd) love story also intertwines more significantly in the expanded two-part season, with Part 1 releasing May 16 on Netflix and Part 2 June 13.

“Bridgerton” Season 3 in response to online body shaming comments.“I specifically asked for certain lines and moments to be included,” Coughlan told Stylist magazine in an interview published Tuesday. “There’s one scene where I’m very naked on camera, and that was my idea, my choice.”She continued: “It just felt like the biggest ‘f–k you’ to all the conversation surrounding my body; it was amazingly empowering.”“I felt beautiful in the moment,” Coughlan added, “and I thought: ‘When I’m 80, I want to look back on this and remember how f—ing hot I looked!’”Coughlan is the leading lady in the new season of “Bridgerton” that debuted on Netflix Thursday.

Bridgerton fans rejoice - the hit Netflix series has finally returned for its highly-anticipated third season.

Bridgerton returns in 2024 with another batch of episodes.Created by Chris Van Dusen, the period drama revolves around the fictional Bridgerton family as they navigate London high society in the early 1800s.The show is based on the books by Julia Quinn, with the third season adapting her fourth Regency romance novel, Romancing Mister Bridgerton.Following the second season, a spin-off titled Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story was released in May 2023. The first four episodes of season three arrived on May 16, 2024.The remaining four episodes of season three will be released on June 13, so there’s only a month to wait for the concluding half.Bridgerton was renewed for a third and fourth season back in April 2021, so another batch of episodes is already in the pipeline – although an exact release date is unknown.It seems like there’s plans for more seasons and spin-offs too.

the “Bridgerton” books that the hit Netflix series is based on, said that she’s surprised by the “hugeness” of the show’s success. “I never thought it was going to flop, because I knew what incredible production values were going into it…And I knew that it was something that lots of people wanted and wasn’t out there.

Bridgerton” has become so much more than a TV show. Heading into Season 3 of Shonda Rhimes’ massively popular period romance series, Netflix has found that viewers aren’t just invested in the love story of new leading couple Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) — they want to invest in the brand itself. That means a fandom spending its dollars on a growing merch and events business that helps them celebrate each new season of the show, which is based on Julia Quinn’s romance novels.

notorious for its steamy scenes, but author Julia Quinn, who wrote the books on which the show is based, said she doesn’t quite understand why. “It’s just very interesting, the way that people talk about the intimacy [on the show]” Quinn told The Post, ahead of the Season 3 premiere.“Because, I’ll see headlines like, ‘Netflix’ raunchiest show!’ and I’ll be like, ‘It’s really not.’”Now entering its third season, premiering Wednesday, May 16, “Bridgerton” is based on Quinn’s series of historical romance novels about the Bridgerton family. Each season of “Bridgerton” follows a different member of the family as they find love in Regency era England, amid the backdrop of ballroom dances, gossip and scandal.

Bridgerton celebrated the premiere of Season 3 at Alice Tully Hall, and star Nicola Coughlan teased what’s ahead for Lady Whistledown.

Kate Aurthur administrator Dearest gentle reader, have you missed “Bridgerton”? Surely the answer is yes, since the second season dropped in March 2022, more than two years ago. But at long last, with Part 1 of Season 3 premiering on May 16, the show’s many fans will see the events depicted in Julia Quinn’s novel “Romancing Mister Bridgerton” — a.k.a., the love story between Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton).

Shonda Rhimes brought Bridgerton to Netflix and fans have obviously been loving the period-piece series since it debuted in late 2020.

Nicola Coughlan, who will take center stage in Season 3 of Netflix’s steamy hit “Bridgerton,” clapped back at an online troll.After the “Derry Girls” actress, 37, posted a video and snaps on Instagram of herself with co-star Luke Newton, 31, wearing a bra top paired with a blazer, a troll in the comments asked, “Why is she in her bra??”Coughlan took to her Instagram Stories to respond. Posting a photo of herself in the outfit with the plunging neckline, Coughlan replied, “Cos it looked good.”Although Coughlan has been in “Bridgerton” since the steamy Shonda Rhimes historical drama premiered in 2020, the upcoming third season will be her first time taking the lead – and starring in the show’s infamously steamy scenes. Each season is based on a novel by Julia Quinn, and follows a different couple finding love in 1800s London.

The third season of Bridgerton is coming up soon, but fans of the book series will be curious about the change coming.

Lexi Carson Get your corsets ready, Bridgerton Season 3 is returning to Netflix for Season 3. The new season’s trailer dropped on Thursday, and Nicola Coughlin and Luke Newton are at the forefront as their characters’ friendship slowly simmers into full blown passion. ‘Bridgerton’ Season 3 will include a total of eight episodes that are split into two parts.

The third season of Bridgerton is coming up soon, but fans of the book series will be curious about the change coming.

Watching characters from Bridgerton and other period dramas whirl their prospective love interests around the ballroom floor has inspired fans to take up Regency-era dancing themselves, a UK-based dance teacher reports.

Bridgerton” Season 3, debuting May 16 on the streamer. In keeping with the formula of previous seasons and the Julia Quinn novels they’re adapted from, this coming edition will follow the romantic journey of a new sibling in the elite Bridgerton clan in 19th century England. Season 3 turns to the third eldest sibling, Colin (Luke Newton), and his love interest Penelope (Nicola Coughlan), who is part of the neighboring Featherington family.

EXCLUSIVE: After breaking out with her lead role in the second season of Netflix’s smash hit series Bridgerton, Simone Ashley has moved on to star in This Tempting Madness, a new indie directed by Jennifer E. Montgomery, from her script written with husband Andrew M. Davis, which just wrapped production in Los Angeles.

romance novels by Julia Quinn, each season of the notoriously raunchy Shonda Rhimes-produced historical drama follows a different member of the Bridgerton family as they find love in Regency-era London. Season 1 followed Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) and the dashing Simon Basset, aka the Duke of Hastings (Rege-Jean Page); Season 2 followed Anthony Bridgerton (Bailey) and Kate Sharma (Ashley), and Season 3 will follow Colin Bridgerton (Newton) as he finds love with Penelope Featherington (Coughlan).

Netflix is offering another first look from Bridgerton‘s “steamy” Season 3, which returns for two parts in 2024.

We know that the upcoming third season of Netflix‘s Bridgerton will focus on the love story between Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) which has prompted questions about why Benedict (focus of the third book in the series) was skipped.

Netflix has confirmed exactly when Bridgerton will be back with its third season, as the streamer teased a new trailer on Tuesday (November 12). The regency romance drama, starring Derry Girls actress Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington, returns with two parts next spring.

Ethan Shanfeld Ready for another rendezvous with the ton? “Bridgerton” is returning to Netflix in 2024, with the third season of the period drama waltzing onto streaming in two parts. The first four episodes will premiere on May 16, and the next four will be available to stream on June 13. Along with the announcement, Netflix released a video stitching together previously seen footage with TikToks and social media posts from fans eager to revisit the upper crust of Regency-era London.

Editor’s note: Deadline’s It Starts on the Page features standout drama series scripts in 2023 Emmy contention. It showcases the critical role writers’ work plays in a show’s success. Arrangements were made before the WGA strike began on May 2.

It’s Tudum day and Netflix has dropped the first photos from the upcoming third season of Bridgerton!

“Bridgerton” is giving fans a sneak peek of season 3, including the romance between Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton).

While fans are anxiously waiting for Bridgerton season 3, Netflix offered a special glimpse at Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington’s complicated journey.

season 3 is here!Netflix revealed the first official photos from the anticipated new season of the Regency romance, which centers on the love story between Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan), who also moonlights as gossip maven Lady Whistledown, and Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton). The images were released Saturday during Netflix's Tudum global fan event in Sao Paulo, Brazil.In two of the shared photos Penelope and Colin's romance is teased as they steal glances at each other — and even get close.

Dearest Polin fans, you’ll be happy to learn that Netflix has revealed more images of Penelope and Colin’s love story in the upcoming third season of Bridgerton.

is coming back. Following 's landslide success after its May premiere, the beloved Regency romance is now in post-production on its anticipated third season.

, a prequel series tochronicles the early days of young Charlotte's marriage to King George III and her ascension to the throne as they ruled over Britain.The six-episode drama, created by Shonda Rhimes and starring India Armateifio and Corey Mylchreest, makes it very clear that it is not to be taken as a historical retelling of Charlotte and George, but instead explains in a disclaimer that opens the series that it is merely «fiction inspired by fact,» and any and all «liberties taken by the author are intentional.»Though the distinction is crucial for many elements of Rhimes' story are actually taken from factual events, such as the couple's quick marriage, their coronation ceremony and George's health issues — just with an added dose of spice.Queen Charlotte was initially introduced in the first season of , a series inspired by Julia Quinn's romance novels, and was one of the only historical figures in the otherwise fictional world.  focuses on Charlotte's younger years as she acclimated to her new beginning as a royal, but what parts are actually real? ET breaks down seven of the biggest questions from the prequel and explains what's fact and what's fiction.Yes, Charlotte and George are Charles III's great-great-great-great-great grandparents.

told Business Insider of the shift in narrative.Benedict has previously had romantic flings with both the Modiste Genevieve (Kathryn Drysdale) and a male artist Henry Granville, leading fans to wonder if he could be bisexual.Showrunner Chris Van Dusen clarified those Season 1 scenes in an interview with TVLine.“I’ve seen a lot of discussion about Benedict’s sexuality in Season 1, but the storyline [of him befriending] Henry was really about tolerance in a really intolerant time, and showing Benedict in that world,” he said. “I love the story in Season 1 and would love to continue it into the future.”In the books, Benedict ends up with a woman, Sophie Beckett.“We haven’t met Benedict’s love interest.

Making the role his own. Freddie Dennis had quite a challenge on his hands bringing Reynolds to life in Queen Charlotte — a character that didn’t exist in the franchise’s original series Bridgerton.

Alison Herman TV Critic As the subtitle suggests, “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story” is a prequel and spinoff to the hit Netflix series, which adapts Julia Quinn’s Regency Era romance novels with the soapy, progressive sensibility of producer Shonda Rhimes. In practice, though, the six-episode series is more like “Bridgerton” Season 2.5. Though the story flashes back some 50 years to depict the titular monarch’s early marriage, it keeps the flagship show’s stylistic trademarks firmly in place, from the classical covers of contemporary pop songs to the voiceover by Julie Andrews’ Lady Whistledown. There’s even a timeline set just after the most recent season centering the social set’s elder stateswomen: Lady Danbury (Adjoa Andoh), Violet Bridgerton (Ruth Gemmell), and Queen Charlotte herself (Golda Rosheuvel).

Bridgerton season three, fans have spotted a major clue about the future seasons. Watch Below: Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story TrailerThe crew and cast of the hit Netflix series recently took to social media to celebrate the end of filming for season three, but eagle-eyed fans think one snap could be a big hint as to who will take the helm of season four.The Bridgerton Netflix account shared a series of pictures on Instagram alongside a sign which read; "Congratulations on finishing season 3! On behalf of Netflix Studios UK Studio Management and Services Team, thank you for joining us and being part of an amazing crew." The mix of photos included snaps of Luke Newton and Nicola Coughlan who play Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington (who will be the focus of season three.) But fans quickly focused on a picture of Like Newton with Luke Thompson who plays Benedict Bridgerton in the series, jumping to the (hopeful) conclusion that this could mean Benedict will be front and centre for season four. Will Benedict be at the centre of season four?If you're keen for a little insight to the love life of this artsy man with a penchant for hallucinogenic tea, his novel is called An Offer From a Gentleman and follows his relationship with Sophie Beckett. If you don't want any more book spoilers, skip this next part. Julia Quinn went full "Cinderella" with this one, introducing readers to Sophie - the illegitimate daughter of an Earl, who was left to work as a servant for his wife and her daughters when he passed away. She sneaks out of the house one night and attends a masquerade ball at the Bridgerton's place, meeting Benedict and falling head over heels.

The best part of waking up! Bridgerton alum Regé-Jean Page revealed that he and Phoebe Dynevor had “horrendous coffee breath” while filming the sexy period drama.