Nicola Coughlan, Simone Ashley and Charithra Chandran Tease ‘Bridgerton’ Season 3
Angelique Jackson “Bridgerton” fans were whipped into a frenzy at the news that the hit Netflix series would skip ahead of the book’s timeline to feature the love story between Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) in Season 3.Coughlan announced the news during an FYSEE panel celebrating the show on May 15, telling Variety the next day that it was slightly overwhelming to make the proclamation.“I had a moment because I’ve been keeping this secret for so long, that right before — because I was given the job of NOC which was so lovely, but that right before I went, ‘I’m too scared, to school, because if it becomes real…” Coughlan recalls shyly, as her costars Simone Ashley and Charithra Chandran cooed their support from opposite ends of the podcast studio. On this episode of the Variety Awards Circuit Podcast, we talk to Coughlan, Ashley and Chandran about this past season of “Bridgerton,” and even more importantly, what comes next.But first, our Awards Circuit Roundtable is back, and discussing directing categories and also offering up our pleas to TV Academy members as nomination voting gets underway.