Before Ryan Murphy anthology series Feud debuts, FX has greenlit Season 2, tackling the royal marriage of Charles and Diana.
It’s clear that Fox Television is quite comfortably in the business of anthology series’ headed by Ryan Murphy (Glee, Nip/Tuck), with the long-running American Horror Story, American Crime Story and, relevantly, the imminently arrivingFeud: Bette and Joan. Indeed, mere days before the latter’s March 5 debut on FX, it was announced that the network has preemptively picked up a second season. However, after Season 1’s historical grudge between legendary Hollywood divas concludes, Season 2 of Feud will focus on royal-level tabloid fodder of epic proportions.
FX has announced the renewal of Feud for a 10-episode second season. It’s currently hard to miss the hype surrounding the upcoming debut of Season 1, subtitled, Bette and Joan, centered on the outrageous diva-dynamic feud between aged black-and-white-era screen sirens Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon) and Joan Crawford (Jessica Lange) on the set of 1963’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?. By contrast, Season 2 will center on the acrimonious marriage of English royal heir Charles and Diana. After their July 1981 wedding enraptured the world, their union resembling a real-life storybook marriage – yielding sons Princes William and Harry – began to fall apart in an extremely public manner with Charles’s alleged infidelities, leading to a tumultuous divorce that would be finalized in August of 1996 – a year before the crash that claimed Diana’s life.
The sophomore iteration of Feud will see Murphy collaborate with Jon Robin Baitz, a playwright who also finds work on television as a writer and producer from shows like The Slap and Brothers & Sisters. Said partnership will apparently be one that Murphy repeats with the upcoming iterations of his other non-fiction-based anthology series with Katrina: American Crime Story, focusing on the controversially late federal response to Hurricane Katrina, as well as a subsequent season said to focus on the 1997 murder of fashion industry giant Gianni Versace.
For now, you can catch the inaugural edition of Murphy’s latest anthology series Feud: Better and Joan when it premieres on FX on Sunday March 5.