Alert Lady Whistledown, there’s news from the ton. Netflix and Shondaland officially announced a brand-new Bridgerton spinoff on October 8, and this one’s been a long time coming for fans. The untitled limited series will chronicle the early life of a young Lady Violet and her romance with Viscount Edmund Bridgerton, the parents of the franchise’s eight beloved siblings.
Netflix’s own press release frames the project clearly. “Similar to the massive global hit Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, the series will chronicle the early life of a young Lady Violet and tell the story of her romance with Viscount Edmund Bridgerton.”
This isn’t exactly a surprise pick either. Shonda Rhimes, who returns as co-writer and showrunner alongside Nicholas Nardini, had been dropping hints about this very idea for a while. Speaking on Craig Melvin’s podcast Glass Half Full back in March, she said, “I’ve always said that I thought, if we were going to do another spinoff, Violet would be a great person to tell the story about, the Bridgerton mom.” Current Bridgerton showrunner Jess Brownell echoed the same sentiment in a Radio Times interview that same month, admitting, “I would so love a young Violet spin-off… I would watch the hell out of a young Violet spin-off, for sure.”
Tom Verica, a longtime Rhimes collaborator with credits on Bridgerton, Queen Charlotte, Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, will direct and executive produce, with Betsy Beers also on board as EP.
Fans actually got their first glimpse of a young Violet back in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, where Connie Jenkins-Greig played a 12-year-old version of the character, though it’s still unclear whether she’ll return for this new chapter. Ruth Gemmell continues to play the older Violet in the mainline series.
The timing lines up nicely too, with Bridgerton Season 5, centred on Francesca and featuring the franchise’s first same-sex lead couple, currently filming in London.
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