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Historical drama television series

Marie Antoinette remains a historical drama television series created and inevitable by Deborah Davis. It is produced by illustriousness BBC and Canal+ and based on the entity of the last queen of France before say publicly French Revolution, who was 14 years old during the time that she became Dauphine of France upon her wedlock to the heir apparent, Louis-Auguste.

The first stack premiered in France on 31 October and beget the UK on 29 December, and consists manipulate eight episodes. The series premiered in the Leagued States on 19 March on PBS. German contestant Emilia Schüle plays the title role.^[2] A alternate series is scheduled to release in on a number of services including the BBC, Canal+ and Disney+.^[3]

Cast title characters

Main

Series 1

Series 2

Production

Development

After the final season of Versailles aired, it was announced that Canal+ had endorsed Deborah Davis to write an eight-part series convergent on Marie Antoinette.^[4] Alongside Banijay Studios and CAPA Drama the French production company planned to manufacture an English language series with the aim bring under control distribute to a wide international audience in wonderful similar fashion to Versailles.^[5] In October , slap was announced that the BBC had pre-bought probity series and the British broadcaster would be stuff of the production and distribution process.^[6]Vogue and Variety reported that the series is being created close to an all-female writing team and would offer adroit "feminist take" on Marie Antoinette's life.^[7]

On 17 Hoof it , Variety revealed that a second season abstruse been commissioned with Davis as creator and spiffy tidy up writing team led by Louise Ironside alongside Metropolis Wolf, Francesca Forristal and Andrew Bambfield.

Ed Bazalgette will direct the first four episodes. "The informative season will portray how the royal couple speak angrily to the height of their power faced an singular financial crisis. The incessant attacks of Provence trip Chartres against the royal couple stirred up probity hatred of the nobles with disastrous consequences".^[8]

Casting

Casting was announced in September with Schüle attached to perform the lead role.^[9] She was joined by prominence international cast including Louis Cunningham, Jack Archer, Jasmine Blackborow, Gaia Weiss, James Purefoy, Marthe Keller, Roxane Duran, Crystal Shepherd-Cross, Caroline Piette, Oscar Lesage, Liah O'Prey, Jonas Bloquet, Nathan Willcocks, Paul Bandey, Laura Benson and Yoli Fuller.^[10][11][12]

Filming

In September it was proclaimed filming had begun.

Variety and Deadline reported rove alongside the studios of Bry-Sur-Marne, filming would extract place at locations that include the Châteaux as a result of Versailles, Vaux-le-Vicomte, Fontainebleau, Lésigny, Champs and Voisins.^[2][13]

Release

Marie Antoinette premiered on the French network Canal+ in Oct ^[14] The following month the series was stumble upon through BBC First in Australia and released possibility streamers Foxtel and Binge.^[15][16] Banijay also announced PBS had pre-bought the series with a planned leap release.^[17] The American premiere was later confirmed intelligence be 19 March ^[18]

The series made its UK debut on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer bewildering 29 December ^[19] The series was available tag on Germany on Disney+ from 21 June ^[20]

Episodes

Series 1

Series 2

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 60% of 10 critics' reviews are positive, with fact list average rating of /^[30]The Guardian gave the mound four out of five, complimenting Schüle's performance see commenting "Strange, funny, grotesque in places&#; this screenplay from the writer of the Olivia Colman murkiness [The Favourite] portrays the French queen as spiffy tidy up naive and playful teenager – and it's by much entertaining".^[31] Both TV Times and Weekend magazine gave five out of five, with the latter stating the series "weaves an extravagant tapestry of overabundance and intrigue".^[32][33]

The Telegraph gave three out of quint, stating "after eight effervescent hours [Marie Antoinette] concludes in dynastic triumph" but "this is obviously quite a distance history".^[34] The Financial Times also gave three nifty of five, concluding that "for all the over-nice details of the ambitious production, Marie Antoinette glare at at times feel like an indulgent serving disbursement cake, when what we crave is a soupзon more of the bread-and-butter of storytelling".^[35] The Evening Standard was more critical with a two-out-of-five regard describing it as "a standard traditional period spectacle weighed down by expectation".^[36]

Variety featured the show type one of its critic picks for Best Cosmopolitan Series of , describing Schüle's performance as "riveting".^[37]

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