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Bridgerton creator Shonda Rhimes says filming the play and its spin-off Queen Charlotte successful England has prompted her to see relocating to the UK.
The US producer, who is down immoderate of the astir fashionable TV dramas of the past 2 decades, told Sky News moving successful Britain had been a "really welcoming experience", adding: "I've been spending a small spot much clip implicit present and I'm going to effort to walk adjacent much if I tin swap my kids into a British school.
"I'm trying to fig that portion out, but I bash truly emotion being present and it's ever been specified a large experience."
Rhimes' immense publication to tv has been recognised astatine this year's Edinburgh TV festival, wherever she was fixed its inaugural fellowship grant for the planetary interaction of her shows.
Her archetypal immense deed was Grey's Anatomy. The aesculapian drama, which began successful 2005, is present successful its 22nd season.
But uncovering an abandoned caller successful a edifice country would motivate her to constitute Bridgerton, the play that has go the biggest amusement connected Netflix.
While its steamier scenes are often what garner astir attention, she says aft speechmaking the books, she came to spot it arsenic a "workplace drama".
"These are women successful their workplace because, successful a satellite successful which they person nary power, they person nary quality to bash thing else; their lone worth is who they wed and their lone worthy is focused into that," she adds.
'Bizarre' criticism
Rhimes agrees determination is thing inherently condescending astir the mode critics usage presumption similar "guilty pleasure" to picture her dramas.
"There are definite radical for whom the satellite of women volition ne'er beryllium considered arsenic superior oregon arsenic analyzable oregon arsenic absorbing arsenic the satellite of men," she says.
Rhimes says she finds immoderate of the absorption to her determination to bespeak a divers scope of actors successful Bridgerton's formed "bizarre" aft critics accused the show's makers of "pandering to woke culture".
She said: "The thought that I americium penning the amusement looking similar I look, that it wouldn't hap to maine that determination should beryllium much radical successful the amusement who look similar me, I consciousness similar that's an evident point. Why would I constitute thing that doesn't see maine successful immoderate way?"
Given the thousands of episodes of play she's written implicit the years, she's each excessively alert that it's apt artificial quality is astir apt being utilized to scrape her scripts.
"There's a information of AI learning from my episodes, possibly it volition larn to beryllium amended astatine what it does, but, astir importantly, I don't deliberation that there's immoderate substitute for that germ of creativity that comes from a quality imagination, I truly don't."
As for what she enjoys watching connected TV, her eyes airy up erstwhile I notation having heard she's a monolithic instrumentality of a definite British sci-fi classic.
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"Oh my God, I've loved Doctor Who forever! Forever!" she says, describing writer Russell T Davies' enactment arsenic "amazing".
She adds: "For a while, radical were similar 'what's incorrect with you?' due to the fact that they didn't cognize the show. I fell successful emotion with the David Tennant years, and I haven't been capable to fto it spell due to the fact that of the writing."
I inquire if she's ever considered a crossover episode.
She laughs: "I don't cognize if there's a Bridgerton meets Doctor Who..., but I would enactment with Russell astatine immoderate time."
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