BritBox Reveals First Look At ‘The Other Bennet Sister’ Christmas Special

BritBox is giving a first look at the three-part Christmas special The Other Bennet Sister starring Ella Bruccoleri and Dónal Finn. Check out the photo above. The Other Bennet Sister continues the story of Mary Bennet following the events of the first 10 episodes. Produced by Bad Wolf for the BBC and BritBox North America, production recently wrapped in Wales. Bruccoleri (Down Cemetery Road, Wicker) returns as Mary, with Finn (Young Sherlock, SAS Rogue Heroes) as her husband Tom Hayward. The 10th episode of the series saw Mary agreeing to wed Tom setting up the question, as BritBox puts it, “with marriage comes a new identity and the question remains: who will Mary become as Mrs. Hayward?” Also returning are Ruth Jones (Gavin & Stacey, Stella) as Mrs. Bennet, Tanya Reynolds (Ted Lasso, Sex Education) as Caroline Bingley, Laurie Davidson (A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, The Girlfriend) as Mr. Ryder, Varada Sethu (Doctor Who, Andor) as Ann Baxter, Poppy Gilbert (My Oxford Year, Chloe) as Lizzie Darcy, Maddie Close (Sunflower Child) as Jane Bingley, Grace Hogg-Robinson (The Coroner, COBRA) as Lydia Wickham, Molly Wright (The A Word, APOSTASY) as Kitty Buncock, and Anna Fenton-Garvey (The Nevers) as Charlotte Collins. Nerys Amber Stocks (Out There, Mammoth) also joins the cast as Mary’s housemaid Lucy. Watch on Deadline Screenwriter Sarah Quintrell (The Power, Ellen), who wrote nine of the 10 episodes of the series, has written all three additional episodes based on storylines by author Janice Hadlow. Asim Abbasi (Cake) has returned to direct. Based on Janice Hadlow’s novel, The Other Bennet Sister followed Mary Bennet, the oft-overlooked middle sister in Pride & Prejudice as she navigated the societal pressures of Regency England, where marriage is both aspiration and necessity. In its first 90 days on BritBox in North America, The Other Bennet Sister delivered a record-breaking performance, driving five times more new subscribers than any previous launch and achieving the highest streaming rate of any title launch on the service. According to BritBox, nearly half (47%) of its active subscribers have watched the series in that timeframe, which also helped drive the strongest quarter of subscriber growth in BritBox history and the service’s highest-ever week of signups.