How ‘Bridgerton’s Season 5 Franchaela Announcement Could Set Up a Violet Spinoff

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Bridgerton‘s fifth season has found its leading ladies as Hannah Dodd and Masali Baduza step into the spotlight for Francesca and Michaela’s love story, but could that announcement hint at a long-rumored spinoff?

As fans know, Bridgerton may chronicle the stories depicted in Julia Quinn’s novels, but that doesn’t mean the door is closed to new stories in the Regency era world captured onscreen with the addition of Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story. Shonda Rhimes recently hinted that, should a spinoff for Bridgerton be on the horizon, it would make the most sense if it focused on the family matriarch, Lady Violet (Ruth Gemmell).

“I mean, I think that’s an area that we’re excited about and know that that could be really rich and really mined well,” Rhimes had stated about the possibility of a Violet spinoff. “I’ve always said that I thought if we were gonna do something like that, Violet would be a great person to tell the story about. The Bridgerton mom, so yeah, that’s a possibility.”