“Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story” is a new limited series streaming on Netflix that serves as a prequel to the main series.
Let’s find out some more trivia and facts about the limited series.
- Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story is a drama limited series
- The series is created by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix
- The series is a prequel spin-off of the Netflix series Bridgerton
- It focuses on young Queen Charlotte’s rise to prominence and power
- The series premiered on May 4, 2023
- The series consists of six episodes
- The spinoff miniseries revolving Queen Charlotte consists of two plotlines
- One in the present of Bridgerton, beginning 1814 with the death of the royal heir Princess Charlotte that causes the Queen to pressure her children to marry and produce another royal heir
- The other begins 1761 with Charlotte meeting and marrying King George and explores their marriage and his mental illness
- The series was announced in May 2021
- With Shonda Rhimes set as showrunner and writer
- Rhimes also serves as executive producer with Betsy Beers and director Tom Verica
- Anna O’Malley serves as producer
- The series consists of six episodes
- In April 2022, production designer have Arrowsmith was fired due to allegations of bullying on set
- On March 30, 2022, Golda Rosheuvel, Adjoa Andoh, Ruth Gemmell, and Hugh Sachs were announced to be reprising their roles from Bridgerton
- India Amarteifio, Michelle Fairley, Corey Mylchreest, Arsema Thomas, Sam Clemmett, Richard Cunningham, Tunji Kasim, Rob Maloney, and Cyril Nri were also cast
- In June 2022, Katie Brayben and Keir Charles were cast in recurring roles
- One month later, Connie Jenkins-Grieg joined the cast as a young Violet Bridgerton
- The series was previously set to begin filming in January 2022
- Production began on February 6, 2022, under the working title Jewels
- It was set to wrap in May 2022
- Director Tom Verica confirmed filming had started by March 28, 2022
- The series wrapped on August 30, 2022
- Kris Bowers, who scored both the first and second seasons of Bridgerton, was redesigned to work on two original soundtrack projects for the series through Sony Music
- The first one, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series), was supervised by Bowers
- With co-production by Max Wrightson and co-writing of some tracks by Alec Sievern and Michael Dean Parsons
- The second project, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (Covers from the Netflix Series), provided for the reinterpretation in a classical music key of pop songs from Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, SZA, Dolly Parton and Whitney Houston disocgraphy
- The idea for the cover project arose following the filming of the “King’s Ball scene”, when after a series of songs from the classical repertoire
- The director decided to play Alicia Keys’ “If I Ain’t Got You”
- The song is the only one with two versions: the first one is instrumental
- While the second one is sung by Keys with a 70-piece orchestra of women of colour
- Keys explained the creative process and the concept of the project in a interview with Rolling Stone UK
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds a 91% rating
- Based on 48 critics’ reviews
- With an average rating of 7.6 7/10
- The website’s consensus reads: “A resplendent romance between two of the most interesting characters in the Bridgerton saga, Queen Charlotte is a spin-off that arguably perfects the primary series’ formula”
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, has assigned a score of 76 out of 100
- Based on 28 critics
- Indicating “favorable reviews”
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