Overview
- Netflix said Tuesday that filming has begun in the U.K. on an eight-episode fifth season.
- Francesca Bridgerton (Hannah Dodd) and Michaela Stirling (Masali Baduza) will lead the new chapter, marking the show’s first same-gender central love story.
- Netflix’s logline sets the story two years later as Francesca returns to the marriage market and Michaela’s arrival in London complicates her plans.
- The adaptation draws on Julia Quinn’s When He Was Wicked with Michael reimagined as Michaela and Francesca’s storyline moving ahead of Eloise’s in the TV order.
- No release date is set, and outlets reporting on the timing say the production schedule points to a likely 2027 or later debut.