Channel 4 has confirmed when followers can count on Vera star Brenda Blethyn’s model new upcoming interval drama A Woman of Substance to land.
The eight-part series is a remake of one other Channel 4 adaptation launched 40 years in the past, stars Vera‘s Brenda Blethyn and House of Guinness‘s Jessica Reynolds as two variations of the lead character, Emma Harte, in several time intervals.
A Woman of Substance will premiere with its first two episodes on Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 March at 9pm on Channel 4.
Fans will even have the ability to watch the complete eight-part collection as a boxset following the transmission of the primary episode.
A trailer for the collection was beforehand launched, exhibiting Blethyn’s model of Emma in New York, the place she’s determined to actual revenge.
The footage then takes viewers again to the youthful model of the character (performed by Reynolds), who’s working in a grand home and warned to watch out of her “ambition”.
The official synopsis for the collection, which relies on Barbara Taylor Bradford’s novel, learn: “1911. Emma Harte, an impoverished bold maid in Yorkshire, England goes on a dizzying journey to turn out to be the world’s richest lady, gazing down from a sprawling luxurious New York penthouse.”
It continues: “A rags-to-riches story of girls by means of the twentieth century, Emma defies the expectations of her society, fearlessly difficult the roles she’s given, smashing glass ceilings, and by no means, ever deviating from her masterplan: Get to the highest. Whatever it takes.”
The forged is rounded out by the likes of Leanne Best (This City Is Ours), Ewan Horrocks (The Last Kingdom), Harry Cadby (In Flight), Niall Wright (Slow Horses) and Robert Wilfort (Gavin & Stacey).
Toby Regbo (Belgravia), Hiftu Quasem (The Witcher), Sophie Bould (Call the Midwife), Georgina Sadler (Silo) and Jo Joyner (EastEnders) also star.
The adaptation comes from a script written by The Buccaneers scribe Katherine Jakeways, along with co-writer Roanne Bardsley (Hollyoaks).
A Woman of Substance will premiere on Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 March at 9pm on Channel 4.
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