Suranne Jones

Maryland review – no one is more moving than Suranne Jones
Jones and Eve Best star in this joyful and incredibly affecting drama about two sisters forced to confront their mother’s mysterious death and double life
Lucy Mangan
22, May, 2023 @9:00 PM

TV tonight: Suranne Jones stars in new family drama about secrets and double lives
Sisters reunite after their mother’s death in Maryland. Plus: things get ugly in the penultimate episode of Succession. Here’s what to watch this evening
Hollie Richardson, Phil Harrison, Hannah Verdier, Ali Catterall and Simon Wardell
22, May, 2023 @5:20 AM

Christmas Carole review – Suranne Jones is pitch perfect in this instant festive classic
From a ghostly Morecambe and Wise to high-kicking dance numbers, this modern retelling of the Dickens classic is absolutely glorious
Lucy Mangan
24, Dec, 2022 @9:30 PM

Suranne Jones on playing Scrooge: ‘I could just be horrible – and it was great!’
How did the actor prepare to become a new-fangled Ebenezer? By channelling Cruella De Vil and watching Drag Race, of course! She talks about her Christmas gift to Gentleman Jack fans – and how to escape a torpedo tube
Rebecca Nicholson
16, Dec, 2022 @12:00 PM

‘Gentleman Jack has genuinely saved lives’: readers respond to the show’s cancellation
Following the announcement of the hit BBC One/HBO drama’s axing, readers tell us what the show meant to them – from helping them find love to meeting a worldwide community of friends
Guardian readers and Alexi Duggins
15, Jul, 2022 @10:24 AM

Gentleman Jack Changed My Life review – who knew art still had such power?
Women the world over speak up about how seeing Anne Lister’s life on screen gave them the courage to come out. This is TV as a triumphant act of resistance
Lucy Mangan
24, May, 2022 @10:40 PM

‘It was like a ceiling fell in’: the women whose lives have been saved by Gentleman Jack
From women moved to come out to devout Mormons who realised their sexuality isn’t ‘evil’, we meet those whose lives have changed for ever because of Sally Wainwright’s period drama
Rachel Aroesti
23, May, 2022 @11:20 AM

Suranne Jones’s year in TV: ‘I read Vigil and said: I want to be airlifted into a submarine!’
The Gentleman Jack star on traumatic roles, being mistaken for Davina McCall, and the thrill of making her hit naval drama
Hannah J Davies
07, May, 2022 @2:00 PM

Gentleman Jack series two review – one of the greatest British period dramas of our time
Suranne Jones is an alchemical force of nature in the gleeful, radical return of this rollicking, romantic and exquisitely scripted historical drama
Chitra Ramaswamy
10, Apr, 2022 @9:00 PM

‘Uncompromisingly gay’: Sally Wainwright on turning Gentleman Jack into a global icon
She spent two decades trying to get Gentleman Jack onscreen – but the world wasn’t ready. Sally Wainwright on the return of her hero who’s changed so many lives, her Happy Valley finale – and why Renegade Nell is next
Zoe Williams
25, Mar, 2022 @1:00 PM

The 50 best TV shows of 2021
The great telly countdown hits the top spot with a furiously joyful, gut-wrenching five-part drama that was funny and full of life
22, Dec, 2021 @6:03 AM

Vigil finale review – an anxiety-inducing horror spectacular
A clock-ticking, claustrophobic finale had DCI Silva in a cat-and-mouse game with a shifty Russian asset. If only they’d given her a map
Rebecca Nicholson
27, Sep, 2021 @7:09 AM
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