Netflix announces premiere date for The Crown season 3
By Dan Selcke
The first two seasons of The Crown were huge successes for Netflix, 20 episodes of splashy, expensive period drama about the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II. The show is retooling for seasons 3 and 4, which will explore Elizabeth’s life from the years 1964 through 1977.
Because we’re jumping forward in time, Netflix decided to recast the characters with older actors. Claire Foy is out as Elizabeth, replaced by Olivia Colman, fresh off an Oscar win for playing Queen Anne in The Favourite. Tobias Menzies is replacing Matt Smith as Prince Phillip, while Helena Bonham Carter is stepping in as Princess Margaret for Vanessa Kirby. It’s a pretty bold strategy, but a necessary one if Netflix wants the show to keep getting heralded as a prestige period drama that takes history seriously.
And now we know when we get to watch it. Netflix announced the premiere date alongside this brief clip of Colman as Elizabeth:
November 17. Set your watches, royal family fans.
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The third season of The Crown will also see expanded roles for the royal children, like Prince Charles and Princess Anne. But I’m most looking forward to seeing what Colman does with the central role. Queen Elizabeth is pretty pensive person, so I don’t expect anything like her loopy performance as Queen Anne in The Favourite, but I can’t help thinking of it whenever she plays a royal role. God, she was good in that movie.
Plus, changing out the actors provides Netflix with all new opportunities to score acting Emmys. Diabolical.
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