David Farnor | On 02, Aug 2023

Fans of The Bold Type hoping to catch the final season of the show can finally rest easy, because the BBC has stepped in to bag the rights for the whole series.

The show gives us a glimpse into the outrageous lives of Jane, Kat and Sutton, three millennials who work in New York at the nation’s top women’s magazine, Scarlet. Navigating the turbulent world of publishing, their identities and individual voices, the series stars Katie Stevens (Faking It) as Jane Sloan, Aisha Dee (Safe Home) as Kat Edison, Meghann Fahy (The White Lotus) as Sutton Brady, Sam Page (Mad Men) as Richard Logan, Matt Ward (Arrow) as Alex Crawford, Melora Hardin (The Office, Transparent) as high-powered Editor-in-Chief Jacquelyn Carlyle, and Stephen Conrad Moore (Empire) as Oliver Grayson.

The series is loosely inspired by Joanna Coles, former Editor-in-Chief of Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan. It debuted on Amazon Prime Video in the UK before going on to stream its fourth season on Netflix UK back in 2021. Now, the fifth season will have its UK premiere on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer, joined by all four previous seasons.

There’s no air date just yet, but watch this space for more.

 

Season 4 of The Bold Type gets UK release date

27th February 2021

Season 4 of The Bold Type finally has a UK release date, with the whole show heading to Netflix UK.

Freeform’s series which is produced by Universal Television, is inspired by the life of Joanna Coles (former Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan). It follows the outrageous lives and loves of those responsible for fictional women’s magazine Scarlet. The rising generation of Scarlet women lean on one another as they find their own voices in a sea of intimidating leaders. Together, they explore sexuality, identity, love and fashion.

The Bold Type follows Jane (Katie Stevens, Faking It), Kat (Aisha Dee, Sweet/Vicious) and Sutton (Meghann Fahy, Miss Sloane), three young women juggling careers, love lives and embracing their identities. They’re joined by a cast that includes Sam Page (Self/less), Matt Ward (Arrow), Stephen Conrad Moore (Chicago P.D.) and Melora Hardin (17 Again) as Jacqueline, Editor-in-Chief of Scarlet Magazine.

Season 4 aired in January 2020 in the US, but despite being carried by Amazon Prime Video for three seasons, Amazon decided not to extend its rights to cover the fourth season. The season was also not released on any pay-per-view platforms to buy and download.

Now, a year later, Netflix UK has picked up the rights to the programme, with all four seasons arriving on Netflix UK on 3rd March 2021.

The news comes soon after Freeform renewed the show for a fifth and final season, which will premiere later this year. Watch this space for confirmation that Netflix will also be streaming that season.

 

The Bold Type Season 4 dropped by Amazon

26th January 2020

This past week has seen the return of the underrated comedy-drama The Bold Type in the US. Freeform’s series which is produced by Universal Television, is inspired by the life of Joanna Coles (former Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan). It follows the outrageous lives and loves of those responsible for fictional women’s magazine Scarlet. The rising generation of Scarlet women lean on one another as they find their own voices in a sea of intimidating leaders. Together, they explore sexuality, identity, love and fashion.

The Bold Type follows Jane (Katie Stevens, Faking It), Kat (Aisha Dee, Sweet/Vicious) and Sutton (Meghann Fahy, Miss Sloane), three young women juggling careers, love lives and embracing their identities. They’re joined by a cast that includes Sam Page (Self/less), Matt Ward (Arrow), Stephen Conrad Moore (Chicago P.D.) and Melora Hardin (17 Again) as Jacqueline, Editor-in-Chief of Scarlet Magazine.

The show was renewed for Season 4 last year, shortly after its third season aired. The fourth season picks up as Adena (Nikohl Boosheri) takes a job as Scarlet’s in-house photographer, putting her and on-off girlfriend Kat closer together. Ryan, meanwhile, is trying to win Jane back, Richard and Sutton are facing a long-distance relationship, and our three protagonists are teaming up to save Jacqueline’s job.

Seasons 1 to 3 have premiered in the UK on Amazon Prime Video, as part of an Amazon Prime subscription. But with Season 4 debuting on Freeform on 23rd January, it looks like Amazon Prime will not be carrying the show this season.

“The Bold Type Season 4 will not be launching on Prime Video. Season 1-3 are still available to watch on the service,” Amazon said in a statement to freelancer reporter Rebecca Lewis earlier this month.

Since then, UK fans have repeatedly called for Season 4 to be released on Amazon Prime Video, but Amazon has only responded on social media with comments that it does not have any further information. We have reached out to Amazon to confirm the show’s current status, but as it stands, it appears that Season 4 will only be available to buy online through iTunes, Google Play and Amazon Prime Video at an unconfirmed future date – unless another streamer steps in to snap up the rights.

Watch this space for more details. Until then, here’s the trailer for Season 4:

 

The Bold Type renewed for Season 4

16th May 2019

The Bold Type will return for a fourth season.

The series, which is produced by Universal Television, is inspired by the life of Joanna Coles (former Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan). It follows the outrageous lives and loves of those responsible for fictional women’s magazine Scarlet. The rising generation of Scarlet women lean on one another as they find their own voices in a sea of intimidating leaders. Together, they explore sexuality, identity, love and fashion.

The Bold Type follows Jane (Katie Stevens, Faking It), Kat (Aisha Dee, Sweet/Vicious) and Sutton (Meghann Fahy, Miss Sloane), three young women juggling careers, love lives and embracing their identities. They’re joined by a cast that includes Sam Page (Self/less), Matt Ward (Arrow), Stephen Conrad Moore (Chicago P.D.) and Melora Hardin (17 Again) as Jacqueline, Editor-in-Chief of Scarlet Magazine. Season three is executive produced by Amanda Lasher (Riverdale), Joanna Coles, Ruben Fleischer (Superstore), David Bernad (The Mule), Matt McGuinness (Haven), Becky Hartman Edwards (Switched at Birth), Victor Nelli, Jr. (The Middle) and The District.

“Where The Bold Type really excels is the collision of big city dreams and aspirational gloss with explorations of some of the most prominent issues of today,” we wrote in our review of the show. “A series showing women of various ages quietly getting the hell on with it is something that we’d definitely subscribe to.”

The show, which airs on Freeform in the USA, returned to Amazon Prime Video in the UK last month for its third season. Now, within weeks of that debut, Freeform has ordered a fourth. Dee, Fahy and Stevens announced the news during Freeform’s part of Disney’s upfront presentation in New York this week. With the new season come a new showrunner, with Amanda Lasher, who took over the reins in Season 2, to be replaced by Wendy Straker Hauser, who has been a producer on the series since it began.

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