Paul Bettany and Claire Foy are going to be busy with the scandal.
The Swirl and The crown stars signed A very British scandal, BBC One and Amazon Prime’s follow-up to A very English scandal, Heard TVLine.
Foy and Bettany play the Duchess and Duchess of Argyll, or the key players in one of Britain’s most popular divorce cases of the 20th century. According to the official log line:
Margaret (Foy), Duchess of Argyll, was known for her charisma, beauty and style and dominated the front pages as a divorced person with accusations of forgery, theft, violence, drug use, secret recording, bribery and an explicit Polaroid picture. . in the white-hot sheen of the 1960s media.
Sarah Phelps (Dublin murders) wrote the series, which will unfold in three 60-minute episodes, and which will explore the role that institutional misogyny played in how the Duchess became ashamed in society and was insulted by the press and the legal system.
‘I’m so excited to work with [director] Anne [Sewitsky]”Sarah and Paul on this extraordinary project,” Foy said in a statement, “and to explore through this story how often shame, judgment, and controversy surround a woman’s sexuality.”
Foy, Phelps and Sewitsky are among the series’ executive producers. A very British scandal will be available on Amazon Prime Video in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the United Kingdom.
The predecessor of the series, A very English scandal, played Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw and recorded the events leading up to the English Jeremy Thorpe imbroglio.
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