Channel 4 series starring Halifax actor is set to return
Hit Channel 4 drama A Woman of Substance, which starred an actor from Halifax, is set to return for a second series.
Based on the global phenomenon of novels written by Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE, series one of A Woman of Substance was Channel 4 streaming’s most-watched drama in five years — since It’s a Sin — with an average audience of three million per episode.
Ewan Horrocks starred in the series as Edwin Fairley, the youngest son of the wealthy Fairley family.
A Woman of Substance is an epic drama spanning six decades, charting the rise of Emma Harte from penniless Yorkshire maid in the early 1900s to powerful 1970s business mogul.
Starring Brenda Blethyn and Jessica Reynolds as Emma Harte the new series will follow the unstoppable woman as she emerges from World War I and strides into the glittering, fast changing world of the 1920s. Emma's ambition for the Harte name is unrelenting, as is her determination to make the Fairley family pay. But she has passion to contend with, in the form of the infuriatingly charismatic Paul McGill, and she'll also endure devasting loss and face unexpected betrayals from those she holds most dear. Meanwhile in the 1970s, Emma battles to win back her life’s work from Jim Fairley.
Filming will begin in Yorkshire later this year.
Gwawr Lloyd, Interim Head of Channel 4 drama, says: “Following the incredible success and popularity of the brilliant first series, we’re thrilled to be bringing the incomparable and iconic Emma Harte back to Channel 4 again.”