Ryan Murphy's Feud: Bette and Joan is coming to UK
American Horror Story producer Ryan Murphy's UK fans are finally going to get to see his newest series Feud: Bette and Joan.
The latest in Murphy's standalone anthology dramas premiered in the US to positive reviews all the way back in March, making it one of the highest-profile American shows almost completely unavailable in the UK.
But it's unavailable no more! BBC Two has inked a deal begin airing Feud: Bette and Joan later in the year, although there's no exact premiere date just yet.
Murphy reunites with his American Horror Story star Jessica Lange to tell the scandalous Old Hollywood story of Joan Crawford's (Lange) rivalry with Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon).
The two stars were known to be arch-enemies at the height of their careers, but it was on the way down that circumstances brought them together to star in the kitschy horror classic What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?.
Feud tells their story not just through both Crawford and Davis's eyes, but also from the perspective of their fellow Hollywood icons Joan Blondell (Kathy Bates) and Olivia de Havilland (Catherine Zeta-Jones).
BBC Two controller Patrick Holland said today (June 7): "Drama on BBC Two has to stand out for its authorship, unique vision and exceptional craft so I am delighted that Ryan Murphy's brilliantly realised series Feud: Bette and Joan is coming to the channel.
"It features some wonderful performances, a flawless recreation of period and a delicious unravelling of a personal drama that had a massive impact on modern cinema. Feud is a real treat."
"BBC Two viewers will relish this critically-acclaimed portrayal of Old Hollywood and a famously combustible yet poignant relationship - it is a zesty cocktail of glamour, wit and grit," the BBC's head of programme acquisition, Sue Deeks, added.
Murphy is currently working on a second season of Feud based around the fallout of Prince Charles and Princess Diana ahead of its 2018 premiere.
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