{"id":18499,"date":"2025-08-23T14:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/18499\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T14:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:39:13","slug":"bridgerton-creator-shonda-rhimes-reveals-how-many-seasons-of-romance-workplace-drama-are-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/18499\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridgerton creator Shonda Rhimes reveals how many seasons of romance “workplace drama” are on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bridgerton creator Shonda Rhimes<\/a> has revealed how many seasons of the drama are on the way. <\/p>\n

Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Rhimes confirmed that the hit Netflix<\/a> drama, which has aired three seasons<\/a> so far, has five more seasons to go. <\/p>\n

Asked how many seasons the show will run for, Rhimes said she plans to make “exactly eight” in total (via The Independent<\/a>). <\/p>\n

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“The Bridgerton series is eight children. Violet Bridgerton and all eight of her children married. So every season is a child,” Rhimes said, before explaining that there is “a possibility for spin-offs”.<\/p>\n

Based on Julia Quinn’s Regency romance novel series, the costume drama follows eight siblings in the Bridgerton family as they navigate London’s high society in search of love. <\/p>\n

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Related: <\/strong>Queen Charlotte<\/strong> star Corey Mylchreest’s new Oxford-set “weepie” romance drama is now on Netflix<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

With each book in Julia Quinn’s original Bridgerton series focusing on one of the eight Bridgerton siblings, it makes sense that the show would run for eight seasons. <\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the interview, Rhimes opened up about how she first discovered Quinn’s novels, saying she read the first book after finding it in a hotel room and quickly went out to buy the rest. <\/p>\n

“I had a lot of disdain for romance novels,” she said. “But I read this book, and it was so good that I got out of bed sick, went to the bookstore, bought the rest of the books and came back and read them.”<\/p>\n

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“But I didn\u2019t see it as a romance novel. To me, Bridgerton is a workplace drama. The women have no power in any other areas of their lives.<\/p>\n

“The only place they have power is in who they marry and how they marry, and that marriage is a workplace, and those are colleagues coming together to make sure that their faiths and futures are sealed in a way that is positive for them. Now I know that\u2019s not how you think of it, but that\u2019s how I thought of it.”<\/p>\n

Bridgerton<\/strong> seasons 1-3 are streaming on Netflix, along with <\/strong>Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read more <\/strong>Bridgerton<\/strong> news on our dedicated homepage<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Reporter, Digital Spy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Harriet is a freelance news writer specialising in TV<\/a> and movies<\/a> at Digital Spy<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A horror enthusiast, she joined Digital Spy<\/strong> after working on her own horror website, reviewing films and focusing largely on feminism in the genre.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In her spare time, Harriet paints and produces mixed-media art. She graduated from the University of Kingston with a BA in fine art, where she specialised in painting. She also has an MA in journalism from Birkbeck University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bridgerton creator Shonda Rhimes has revealed how many seasons of the drama are on the way. Speaking at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[341,16348,343,18,117,19,17,342,16347,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-18499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-content-type-news","9":"tag-contentid-c6a08146-c2a9-4099-9982-9c989a5cb3a3","10":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-locale-gb","16":"tag-shorttitle-bridgerton-creator-on-how-many-seasons-are-left","17":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}