Gentleman Jack and Doctor Who special both get air dates

Sally Wainwright’s award-winning hit Gentleman Jack will return for its second series on Sunday April 10 at 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, the BBC has announced. Yorkshire, 1834. All eyes are on Anne Lister and Ann Walker as they set up home together at Shibden Hall as wife and wife, determined to combine their estates and become a power couple. Anne Lister’s entrepreneurial spirit frightens the locals as much as her unconventional love life and, with Halifax on the brink of revolution, her refusal to keep a low profile becomes provocative and dangerous.

Series two will again use the real-life diaries of Anne Lister - part of which were written in code - as its source, with every part of Lister’s story based in historical fact and the five million words she wrote in her journals. Joanna Scanlan joins Gentleman Jack as guest cast for series two, playing Anne Lister’s outrageous former lover Isabella ‘Tib’ Norcliffe.

Meanwhile, The BBC has confirmed that Legend of the Sea Devils – the second in a trio of Doctor Who specials airing in 2022 - will land on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Sunday April 17.

In a swashbuckling special adventure, the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), Yaz (Mandip Gill) and Dan (John Bishop) come face to fin with one of the Doctor’s oldest adversaries: the Sea Devils. Why has legendary pirate queen Madam Ching come searching for a lost treasure? What terrifying forces lurk beneath the oceans of the nineteenth century? And did Yaz really have to dress Dan up as a pirate?