ITV has commissioned a second series of its glossy royal biopic Victoria with Jenna Coleman signed up to reprise her role as the monarch. The series, which also stars Tom Hughes as Prince Albert and Rufus Sewell as Lord Melbourne, has consistently outperformed the second series of BBC1’s Poldark in the Sunday night slot, despite having started a week earlier. ITV said that overnight consolidated ratings including catchup had averaged at 7.7 million viewers, and last Sunday’s episode attracted 5.2 million viewers on ITV and its +1 channel, half a million more than Poldark. In the next series she faces the very modern dilemma of how to juggle children with her husband and her job. As Victoria will discover, it’s hard to be a wife, a mother and ruler of the most powerful nation on earth!”

Source: The Guardian September 23, 2016 09:56 UTC