A local star is set to hit the screen on season two of a hit Amazon Prime show.
Southport thespian Miranda Richardson is set to star alongside Game of Thrones star Kit Harrington in Modern Love, a popular anthology show which is due for its second season.
The show, which is based on a New York Times column, explores love in all its various forms.
Its debut season, which premiered in 2019, featured eight episodes all based on essays about love that were submitted to the New York Times column.
The essays were adapted by show-runner John Carney with each episode acting as a stand alone.
Season one boasted a stellar cast including Anne Hathaway, Dev Patel, Tina Fey, and Catherine Keener as-well-as pop sensation Ed Sheeran.
Less than a week after the first season premiered, Variety reported that Amazon had renewed the series for a second season.
At the time of the sophomore season of Modern Love was set to premiere in 2020 but plans were halted due to the pandemic.
But production resumed late last year. And, in February of 2021, Vulture reported that production for the next season had officially wrapped.
While there is no release date announced yet, we can hopefully expect to see the new episodes sometime this year.
Judging by the first season, Modern Love could beginning screening episodes in October 2021.
LancsLive also understands that Southport native Miranda Richardson will feature in the show alongside Kit Harrington (famous for his iteration of Jon Snow in Game of Thrones) and Anna Paquin (of True Blood fame).
Richardson trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School before enjoying an extensive stage career with the Manchester Library Theatre.
She made her name for herself on the West End, receiving an Olivier Award for her performance in A Lie of the Mind.
In 1985, Richardson became something of a household name when she starred alongside Stephen Fry and Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder II.
Richardson played the iconic Elizabeth I, more commonly known as Queenie, and would later return for a one-off episodes in the third and fourth seasons of the historical comedy.
More recently Richardson has enjoyed roles in Harry Potter, Chicken Run and Sleepy Hollow.
In 2019 she also played a key role in the Amazon Prime miniseries Good Omens, based on the fantasy comedy novel by Terry Pratchett.
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