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Riley Utley

Why Benedict's Story Has Been 'The Easiest' Bridgerton Book To Adapt, According To The Showrunner

Benedict and Sophie in costume masks in Bridgerton Season 4 premiere.

When the 2026 TV schedule begins, we’ll finally get Season 4 of Bridgerton and the highly anticipated adaptation of Benedict’s book, An Offer From a Gentleman. That alone was enough to excite me about what’s to come. However, the showrunner’s comment about why the second-oldest Bridgerton brother’s book was the “easiest” to adapt has my confidence in what’s to come growing.

As I’m sure you’re aware, my dearest reader, the upcoming season of the hit Netflix romance will tell the tale of Benedict (Luke Thompson) and Sophie (Yerin Ha). It’s a book-to-screen adaptation of Julia Quinn’s An Offer From a Gentleman, which is the third novel in her Bridgerton series, and it follows a Cinderella-like story. According to the series' showrunner, writer and producer, Jess Brownell, this tale has been one of the easiest to put together, as she told EW:

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