Gentleman Jack | |
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Genre | Historical drama |
Created by | Sally Wainwright |
Written by | Sally Wainwright |
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Theme music composer | Murray Gold |
Ending theme | "Gentleman Jack" by O'Hooley & Tidow[1] |
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Original language | English |
No. of series | 2 |
No. of episodes | 16 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE. |
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Executive producers |
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Producer | Phil Collinson |
Production location | United Kingdom |
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Running time | 60 minutes[a] |
Production company | Lookout Point TV |
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Release | 22 April 2019 13 June 2022 | –
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Gentleman Jack is a historical drama television series created by Sally Wainwright for BBC One and HBO.[2][3][b] Set in the 1830s in Yorkshire, it stars Suranne Jones[6] as landowner and industrialist Anne Lister. The series is based on Lister's collected diaries—which run to an estimated 5 million words with about a sixth in secret code,[6]—documenting a lifetime of lesbian relationships. Helena Whitbread began decoding and transcribing the diaries in the 1980s.[7] Other transcribers have carried on the work. The research carried out for Wainwright’s Gentleman Jack amounts to hundreds of thousands of words of new transcription of the diary.[8]
The series premiered on 22 April 2019 in the United States,[9] and on 19 May 2019 in the United Kingdom.[10] On 23 May 2019, It was renewed for a second series,[11] which was shown on BBC One from 10 April[12] to 29 May 2022 and on HBO from 25 April to 13 June 2022.[13] In July 2022, co-production company HBO said it would not proceed with a third series. In July 2022, the BBC announced that they wanted to continue with the programme, but they need to find a production partner to replace HBO.[14]
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