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Business Upturn
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Upturn
Is ‘I, Jack Wright' returning for season 2? Everything we know so far
By Aman Shukla Published on May 3, 2025, 19:30 IST Last updated May 3, 2025, 11:17 IST The British drama series I, Jack Wright captivated audiences with its gripping mix of family feuds, murder mystery, and dark comedy in its debut season. Premiering on April 23, 2025, on U&Alibi in the UK and BritBox in the US, the six-episode first season left fans eager for more. With its star-studded cast, including Nikki Amuka-Bird, John Simm, and Trevor Eve, and a cliffhanger-filled finale, many are asking: Is I, Jack Wright Season 2 happening? Here's everything we know so far. Has I, Jack Wright Season 2 Been Confirmed? As of May 3, 2025, no official confirmation has been announced regarding I, Jack Wright Season 2. UKTV, the network behind the series, and streaming platforms like BritBox have not yet renewed or canceled the show. The lack of an announcement isn't unusual, as networks often take time to evaluate viewership data, critical reception, and production feasibility before committing to another season. While I, Jack Wright Season 2 hasn't been officially confirmed, the show's open-ended finale, strong cast, and positive reception make a compelling case for its return. For now, fans will need to wait for an announcement from UKTV or BritBox, likely in the coming months. When Could Season 2 Premiere? Assuming I, Jack Wright Season 2 is renewed by mid-2025, production would likely begin later in the year or early 2026, given the typical timeline for British dramas. Filming for Season 1 took place in 2024 in Hertfordshire and London, with a release in April 2025. A similar schedule could see Season 2 premiere around spring or summer 2026, likely on U&Alibi and BritBox, with weekly episodes airing on Wednesdays at 9 PM in the UK. Aman Shukla is a post-graduate in mass communication . A media enthusiast who has a strong hold on communication ,content writing and copy writing. Aman is currently working as journalist at
Telegraph
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
I, Jack Wright, U&Alibi, review: a homespun Succession with a dab of Dallas
It's a legal myth created by Hollywood but once upon a time, TV and film were full of wills being read. Beneficiaries would gather solemnly around a long table, often in a spooky mansion, before a lawyer formally read aloud the terms of the deceased's last will. Cue shock revelations, long-buried secrets and all manner of melodrama. Such theatrical set pieces might have fallen out of fashion but the tradition is revived in I, Jack Wright (U&Alibi). Set in motion by a minted mogul's last will and testament, this gripping family thriller is half-whodunit, half-soapy dynastic drama. A homespun Succession with a dab of Dallas and an Agatha Christie-esque mystery at its heart. When the titular wealthy patriarch – Wright Snr (Trevor Eve) made his millions in the brick business and we don't mean Lego – died by what appeared to be suicide, his current wife and two eldest sons were outraged to learn they'd been left virtually nothing of his £100m fortune. As well-heeled hell broke loose, police investigated Jack's suspicious demise. Naturally, it turned out to be murder most foul. Disinherited wife Sally (Nikki Amuka-Bird) launched a legal challenge. Dissolute son Gray (John Simm, sporting an earring, black eye and bloodied nose) was being pursued by loan sharks and badly needed the payday. His brother John (Daniel Rigby) had been groomed to take over as CEO of the brick business but suddenly found himself frozen out, to the fury of his Lady Macbeth-esque wife (Zoë Tapper). Ruby Ashbourne-Serkis – as the daughter of Lorraine Ashbourne and Andy Serkis, the 26-year-old has impeccable acting genes – impressed as granddaughter Emily, an aspiring tech mogul with an agenda of her own. The dogged detective, DCI Hector Morgan (Harry Lloyd), was refreshingly free of gratuitous quirks, although I suspect his wife recently left him. The reasons will doubtless soon be revealed. He was also partial to a Columbo-style 'Just one more thing…' but who could blame him? Given half a chance, we'd all do it. In a knowing flourish, episodes were bookended by interviews with key players for what appears to be a true-crime documentary. Flashing forward two years, some were in prison, others had fallen on hard times. Some were haunted by guilt, others defiantly unrepentant. The gimmick added momentum, seeded clues and left the plot intriguingly poised. Production values were higher than one might expect from a second-tier channel. Action unfolded at country estates, swanky London offices and Parisian apartments. Interiors were enviably stylish, all gleaming parquet floors, chic lamps and designer kitchens. The cast was high-calibre, with the likes of Gemma Jones, Niamh Cusack and James Fleet adding heft in supporting roles. Created by Unforgotten's Chris Lang, it was packed with treachery and plot twists. This was a propulsive tale of greed, mistrust and dysfunctional family feuds. The script was darkly comic, with teenagers nabbing the best lines – notably one about frozen peas in a bodily orifice which was bound to have set off alarm bells at Birds Eye HQ. The BBC part-funded the series, so one assume it will tip up on terrestrial TV next year. That would be welcome, because it deserves a wider audience.
New Statesman
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New Statesman
I, Jack Hall is a riot of a show
Not another one! But yes – bang – five minutes into Chris Lang's new six-part drama, yet another big name gets it. One minute Trevor Eve, who plays a plain-speaking, Mancunian multi-millionaire called Jack Wright, is talking to his wife, Sally (Nikki Amuka-Bird), on the telephone from their stately pile in the Home Counties (she's in Paris, in an apartment with parquet floors that is straight out of one of my most painfully covetous fever dreams). The next, he's lying face down on the floor of a pigeon loft, with only some ancient guano and a few feathers for company. Here, though, is where it all starts. Lang, best known as the writer of the brilliant Unforgotten, has gone for broke in I, Jack Wright (it's on U&Alibi now, but will eventually show up on BBC One). How daring to begin with the reading of a will. How very retro. And yet, it works. When the Wright family and various of Jack's employees – an estate manager, a long-suffering secretary – assemble in Marston Hall's panelled dining room the day after his funeral, they're at once stock figures from a Golden Age detective novel, and compelling character studies. Each one jostles for position. Each one has a secret, a grudge, or both. Wright moved dramatically upwards in life, from poverty to huge wealth, and around the table is the collateral damage, anxiously awaiting its compensation payment. Lang is such a good writer. Plot, dialogue, juicy subtext: he can do them all. A particular treat here is the way he bookends each episode with flash-forwards from a documentary about Wright's death in which members of the clan speak straight to camera (here are clues, red herrings, black humour and a delicious reverse portentousness). He must know the danger of cliché is ever present, a cliff edge over which it would be easy to fall. But he and his producers have gathered a great cast, with the result that even the most (potentially) cartoony moments work: Daniel Rigby as John, the good son (he runs Wright's brick-making business in Savile Row shirts with contrast cuffs); John Simm as Gray, the bad son (a music-producer relic of the Haçienda who's neck-deep in debt and coke); Gemma Jones as Jack's first wife, who married him when he had nothing. Rigby and Simm especially are fabulous, the one awkward, uncertain and brooding, the other a seething perpetual victim. And so much is going on, all the time. Two of the women are having illicit affairs. A daughter, from Wright's second marriage, is missing. John's wife, Georgia (Zoë Tapper), is like a character from a Jacobean tragedy, all deadly whispering ambition. ('You remember hard, don't you?' she spits, urging a fightback.) Above all, there's the mystery of the will, and why the man who wrote it was seemingly so determined to wreak havoc. If it makes no sense to its beneficiaries (and, er, non-beneficiaries), even better, suspense-wise, is that we can't understand its spite and whimsy either. I've gobbled up three episodes so far – it's so watchable – and I'm still as much in the dark as when it first began. Is there a moral here somewhere? Has Lang something to say about money, and the relatively small impact it has on a person's innermost happiness? One thinks, inevitably, of another of his projects: The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe, in which Eddie Marsan played John Darwin, who faked his death at sea in order to collect £250,000 life insurance – a story that works as a parable of the misery born of avariciousness. I'm happy to feast on the glorious, slightly camp set pieces in I, Jack Wright: the funeral, when Sally looks like she's modelling Dior's New Look; a later exhumation, which shamelessly (on Lang's part) takes place at night in pouring rain, and is attended by his widow. However, I also sense something scrupulous at work below: an instinct, perhaps, that the good are not always rewarded, and the bad rarely punished. Lang, I would suggest, knows that it's more important to be at ease in your skin than to have a throbbing great account at Coutts. But let's see. This riot of a show is written for our entertainment above all, and I'm not even the tiniest bit embarrassed to say that I love it. I, Jack Wright U&Alibi Subscribe to The New Statesman today from only £8.99 per month Subscribe [See also: Pope Francis's divided house] Related
Scottish Sun
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Half of Brits have ongoing feud in their family – including favouritism, personality clashes and affairs
Scroll down for the full list FAMILY FEUDS Half of Brits have ongoing feud in their family – including favouritism, personality clashes and affairs Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) HALF of Brits have an ongoing feud in their family - with favouritism, personality clashes, affairs, and disputes over wills and inheritance common causes. A poll of 2,000 adults found falling outs have resulted in family members not speaking (34 per cent), not attending milestone events like weddings (55 per cent), and severing ties entirely (74 per cent). Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 2 Poll of 2,000 reveals common issue of family feuds among Brits Credit: UKTV 2 Some feuds last decades, or even across generations Credit: UKTV The average rift has lasted seven years and counting - but for 22 per cent it has carried on for 10 years or more. While some tiffs have even been passed down from one generation to another (21 per cent). The research was carried out to celebrate new U&Alibi drama, 'I, Jack Wright', which airs Wednesday April 23 and focusses on a family at war over a will – it stars Trevor Eve, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and John Simm, and was written by Unforgotten's Chris Lang. In the study, 11 per cent revealed they, or someone in their family, has contested a will in court, while 12 per cent fear an inheritance could cause a family fallout in the coming months and years. And they could be right – 57 per cent currently don't have a will, and of those who do, 25 per cent have barely discussed it with their loved ones. A spokesperson said: "Feuds can tear families apart – impacting not just those directly involved but the wider family too. 'They've long been the source of inspiration for literature, theatre, cinema, and TV – so many of us can relate to such situations. 'And while money – much like in I, Jack Wright – is often the cause, the actual reasons for the squabbling tend to run much deeper.' In hindsight, 86 per cent believe the dissension in their family could have been avoided, but 14 per cent are convinced it was always going to happen. Khloe Kardashian reveals how family divides up '$60m' Hulu show salary and which sister demands producers cut footage Three in 10 (30 per cent) think about the feud several times a week or more and 48 per cent admit it has impacted their mental health. Perhaps as a result, 59 per cent think it's 'important' all bickering comes to an end - and 30 per cent think that will happen in time, but 49 per cent aren't so convinced. That hasn't stopped some trying - 26 per cent revealed they or another member of the family have tried mediation or counselling to resolve the situation. While 51 per cent of those directly involved in a feud, would be 'willing' to let bygones be bygones – if the other party involved made the first move. However, even that wouldn't be enough for 29 per cent. Carried out through the study found 23 per cent believe family in-fighting is just a natural part of family dynamics. Although 34 per cent admit feuds between family members run especially deep. A spokesperson added: "Losing a family member can bring families together – but it can also pull families apart. 'That person is no longer able to speak for themselves – answer any questions loved ones might have. 'And for television writers, this lends itself to all sorts of interesting possibilities – especially when you throw inheritance into the mix.'
The Sun
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Half of Brits have ongoing feud in their family – including favouritism, personality clashes and affairs
HALF of Brits have an ongoing feud in their family - with favouritism, personality clashes, affairs, and disputes over wills and inheritance common causes. A poll of 2,000 adults found falling outs have resulted in family members not speaking (34 per cent), not attending milestone events like weddings (55 per cent), and severing ties entirely (74 per cent). 2 2 The average rift has lasted seven years and counting - but for 22 per cent it has carried on for 10 years or more. While some tiffs have even been passed down from one generation to another (21 per cent). The research was carried out to celebrate new U&Alibi drama, 'I, Jack Wright', which airs Wednesday April 23 and focusses on a family at war over a will – it stars Trevor Eve, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and John Simm, and was written by Unforgotten's Chris Lang. In the study, 11 per cent revealed they, or someone in their family, has contested a will in court, while 12 per cent fear an inheritance could cause a family fallout in the coming months and years. And they could be right – 57 per cent currently don't have a will, and of those who do, 25 per cent have barely discussed it with their loved ones. A spokesperson said: "Feuds can tear families apart – impacting not just those directly involved but the wider family too. 'They've long been the source of inspiration for literature, theatre, cinema, and TV – so many of us can relate to such situations. 'And while money – much like in I, Jack Wright – is often the cause, the actual reasons for the squabbling tend to run much deeper.' In hindsight, 86 per cent believe the dissension in their family could have been avoided, but 14 per cent are convinced it was always going to happen. Khloe Kardashian reveals how family divides up '$60m' Hulu show salary and which sister demands producers cut footage Three in 10 (30 per cent) think about the feud several times a week or more and 48 per cent admit it has impacted their mental health. Perhaps as a result, 59 per cent think it's 'important' all bickering comes to an end - and 30 per cent think that will happen in time, but 49 per cent aren't so convinced. That hasn't stopped some trying - 26 per cent revealed they or another member of the family have tried mediation or counselling to resolve the situation. While 51 per cent of those directly involved in a feud, would be 'willing' to let bygones be bygones – if the other party involved made the first move. However, even that wouldn't be enough for 29 per cent. Carried out through the study found 23 per cent believe family in-fighting is just a natural part of family dynamics. Although 34 per cent admit feuds between family members run especially deep. A spokesperson added: "Losing a family member can bring families together – but it can also pull families apart. 'That person is no longer able to speak for themselves – answer any questions loved ones might have. 'And for television writers, this lends itself to all sorts of interesting possibilities – especially when you throw inheritance into the mix.'
