‘What next, Del Girl Trotter’ has genderswap TV gone too far?
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After Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes, Rumpole of the Bailey is the latest character to switch from male to female. However, for many series such a flip seems inconceivable
Following Jodie Whittaker’s turn as the first woman to play the lead in Doctor Who, and Millie Bobby Brown’s feminised Sherlock in Netflix’s Enola Holmes last year, another leading screen character will switch from male to female in 2022.
Horace Rumpole, the battered slow-track barrister who proved one of TV drama’s most vivid characters from 1978 to 1992, will be reimagined as a female lawyer in a new take on Rumpole of the Bailey. The update for the most famous character created by the novelist and QC Sir John Mortimer, who died in 2009, is currently being written by his daughters, Emily (who scripted BBC One’s The Pursuit of Love) and Rosie. Continue reading...
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