Bridgerton Season 3 Sets Two-Part Premiere Date on Netflix
Dearest gentle readers, mark your calendars!
Bridgerton Season 3 will unfold in two parts — a first for the romantic drama. Its first four episodes drop on Thursday, May 16, 2024, on Netflix. Its final four episodes will stream on Thursday, June 13, 2024, per Netflix’s TUDUM.
The streaming service unveiled a first look at the season that will feature the love story between Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton in June 2023. That sneak peek includes its synopsis, revealing that Penelope gives up on her long-time crush after Colin’s comments at the end of Bridgerton Season 2.
As she advances her career as Lady Whistledown, Penelope decides to enter the marriage mart and find a husband but struggles to make any lasting connections — until Colin returns from his summer travels. To warm up her cold shoulder to him and regain her friendship, Colin agrees to help Penelope find a match.
Meanwhile, the rift between Penelope and Eloise complicates romantic prospects and endangers Penelope’s alter ego.
The romance drama’s third season is based on Quinn’s Romancing Mister Bridgerton, reflecting a previously reported reshuffling of Quinn’s books in the Netflix show’s telling of the Bridgerton siblings’ love stories.
Bridgerton Season 3 stars Nicola Coughlan, Luke Newton, Claudia Jessie, Luke Thompson, Golda Rosheuvel, Adjoa Andoh, Ruth Gemmell, Lorraine Ashbourne, Simone Ashley, Jonathan Bailey, Harriet Cains, Bessie Carter, Jessica Madsen, Florence Hunt, Martins Imhangbe, Will Tilston, Polly Walker, and Julie Andrews.
Other returning cast members include Hugh Sachs as Brimsely, Emma Naomi as Alice Mondrich, and Kathryn Drysdale as Genevieve Delacroix.
As previously reported, Hannah Dodd will replace Ruby Stokes in the role of Francesca Bridgerton. Other new cast members joining the ton in the upcoming season include Daniel Francis as Marcus Anderson, Sam Phillips as Lord Debling, and James Phoon as Harry Dankworth.
Marcus Anderson is “a man whose charismatic presence draws as much attention — especially from certain matriarchs — as it does ire,” per Shondaland.
Meanwhile, Lord Debling is a wealthy man with a title that backs “up his unusual interests — and secure plenty of attention from the ladies during the season.”
Finally, Shondaland describes Harry Dankworth as “dashing but slightly dumb.”
Bridgerton Season 3 will also see a new showrunner take over for Chris Van Dusen, who led the show’s first two seasons.
Jess Brownell, who wrote on the show’s first two seasons, will be the showrunner for Season 3 and the previously confirmed Season 4.
Brownell, who also wrote on other Shondaland projects like Scandal and Inventing Anna, executive producers Bridgerton Season 3 with Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers, Tom Verica, and Chris Van Dusen.
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Bridgerton Season 3 Part 1 premieres on Thursday, May 16, 2024, on Netflix.
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