A Woman of Substance (2026)

Name: A Woman of Substance (2026)
Released: 2026

Series

2026

Drama

Charts the rags-to-riches rise of working-class Emma Harte from impoverished maid in early 1900s Yorkshire to 1970s business mogul ruling the New York skyline.

Cast & Crew

Emmett J. Scanlan Adam Fairley

Lydia Leonard Olivia Wainwright

Leanne Best Adele Fairley

Brenda Blethyn Emma Harte

Harry Cadby Gerald Fairley

Ewan Horrocks Edwin Fairley

Mara Huf Paula Amory

John Hardwick Director

Charlie Palmer Producer

Beth Willis Executive Producer

George Faber Executive Producer

Katherine Jakeways Executive Producer

Joe Innes Executive Producer

Barbara Taylor Bradford Writer (Book)

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2026– Series 1 Season 8 Episodes

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Matt Roush says...

Barbara Taylor Bradford‘s best-selling saga was first adapted for TV during the glory days of the TV miniseries, with film legend Deborah Kerr playing the “world’s richest woman,” Emma Harte, reflecting on her tumultuous rags-to-riches trajectory. (BritBox will present the 1984 original in late July.) A new series version, already renewed for a second season, stars Brenda Blethyn (Vera) as the elder Emma, with Jessica Reynolds as the ambitious younger Emma, whose experience as an ill-used maid in 1911 Yorkshire sets her on a lifelong crusade to accumulate wealth and power and take revenge on the posh family that did her wrong. The eight-episode season launches with two episodes, the rest following weekly.