Gentleman Jack

The historical drama series, created by Sally Wainwright, is back with a new season. Wainwright is best known for writing the 2009 mini-series Unforgiven, for which she won the Royal Television Society’s Writer of the Year Award. Set in 19th century Yorkshire, the series is based on the life of cryptic diarist, industrialist, and landowner, Anne Lister, who is regarded as the ‘first modern-day lesbian’. After moving from Hastings to Halifax to renovate her uncle’s estate which she had inherited, she meets a young woman with whom an exciting romance blossoms. With Suranne Jones and Sophie Rundle reprising their roles as Anne Lister and Ann Walker, the cast includes Joe Armstrong, Amelia Bullmore, Rosie Cavaliero, Gemma Whelan, Gemma Jones, Timothy West and Tom Lewis, along with Joanna Scanlon, who plays Isabelle ‘Tib’ Northcliffe, Anne’s former lover.