BBC Studios and Amazon Prime Video are finally having a Season 2 of their well-received series, A Very English Scandal. As per reports in the media, the makers of the series have signed up flavour-of-the-season, “WandaVision” actor Paul Bettany, along with “The Crown” actress Claire Foy to headline A Very English Scandal 2.
The 3-episode, multi-award-winning series had premiered in 2018 on BBC and Amazon Prime Video. A Very English Scandal Season 1 was based on John Preston’s 2016 novel of the same name. It starred Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw as leads, along with Alex Jennings,
Patricia Hodge, Monica Dolan and Jonathan Hyde, among others. Season 1 was a dramatization of the Jeremy Thorpe scandal.
A Very English Scandal Season 2 will chronicle the 1963 sex scandal involving Margaret Campbell, the Duchess of Argyll. In the course of messy divorce proceedings against her second husband, he released scandalous images of the Duchess performing a sex act on an anonymous man, leading to her being labelled “The Dirty Duchess”. Claire Foy will play Margaret Campbell, the Duchess of Argyll, and Paul Bettany will play her husband, the Duke. It will again comprise of three episodes, like the first.
A Very English Scandal Season 2 will be produced by Blueprint Pictures, directed by Anne Sewitsky (Castle Rock) and written by Sarah Phelps (The ABC Murders, The Pale Horse). Phelps said of Margaret Campbell, “I felt very strongly that she’d been punished for being a woman, for being visible, for refusing to back down, be a good girl and go quietly. This drama is my tribute to her.”
With A Very English Scandal Season 2 officially in the works, fans of the show can be happy that they’ll get to watch another season of the show, something they’ve been clamouring for years.
Meanwhile, catch up with A Very English Scandal Season 1. It is available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video across the world.