Gentleman Jack's Sally Wainwright on class and gender in TV writing - BBC Newsnight

[@catherinedunsmore2249]

You are brilliant Sally Wainwright! Thank you for amazing writing.

[@IrethN]

Thank you for giving us Gentlemen Jack!

[@piedwagtailrameau]

Great great writer - amazingly talented and an asset!

[@123B61tab]

Incredible show and amazing writing. Sally is extremely talented.

[@rosepalmer73]

Thank you for being so candid with your thoughts.

[@yasminemora896]

I am a happy to pay my TV license because of Sally's shows.

[@AlanWattResistance]

Typical woman.

[@honeywasp7839]

You do realise no one checks the tv licence

[@yasminemora896]

@@honeywasp7839 you do realise there is a choice, but then that is a useless debate don't you think

[@honeywasp7839]

@@yasminemora896 well thats really bitchy, isnt that right Yasmine Mora

[@yasminemora896]

Nah, not really. Maybe its your projection, who knows

[@goosebumpsallover4938]

Thank Heaven for the writers of the world, Thank You for your stories for now for pass & for the future.

[@iindawatts3505]

Sally Wainwright brilliant writer ♥️♥️♥️

[@karonfrench1012]

Sally you are truly my best TV writer. I have loved everything you’ve done. Last Tango in Halifax was like watching my mum and her new partner. I’m sure many people feel the same. What you write is so true to life. You are amazing. Thank-you Sally keep it up. It makes watching television an absolute pleasure. 👍❤️

[@hawkz3167]

Wonderful, like every Sally Wainwright production!

[@axiomaddict]

As a North American, one of the things I find troubling about our understanding of the world is that we don’t generally take into account class. Anyway, I’m so pleased that GJ has been produced by someone with the ethics of Sally Wainwright. I love the series.

[@bermuda1100]

Brilliant as are all Sally’s work I’ve watched over the years 👏

[@bluedoodleol]

The thing about sally is she is able to write for soaps as she has a good imagination within the limitations of a working class background. She has taken the actresses from soaps where they are able to characterise the most banal people and see their potential. That's her skill. She has turned the life of Ann Lister into a soap opera. That's her talent

[@maryfleming3299]

bluedoodleol And because of that we are able to see an Amazing Actress Suranne Jones. Did you see her in Dr.Foster? That wasn’t Sally Suranne’s performance was Incredible

[@bluedoodleol]

I think think Ann Lister could have been anyone and she would have been an icon at the hands of sally. Come on girl, series 1 2 3 4 5!!!!

[@msh8673]

6 7 10 100

[@highbany]

Such a talented lady, more of Gentleman Jack PLEASE.

[@laminage]

Sally Wainwright was to Gentleman Jack what Phyllis Nagy was to "Carol" in 2015. I don't know about Sally but it took Ten Years for Phyllis Nagy to get the Book originally known as The Price Of Salt made into a Movie.

[@Darjasky]

Thank you for sharing us this story!

[@kimmeriesky9860]

Brilliant for Sally to write a story about such a extraordinary real life character who actually lived in same Halifax as Sally, almost 200 years ago.

[@paulj6662]

Kirsty lit up, looking a bit Jack there!

[@maryfleming3299]

I love Sally Wainwright. Wish she could write some shows for American Television.. I’ve been watching on Netflix Amazon Prime, Loved Scott & Bailey, Last Tango in Halifax’s. Whenever Sally and Suranne team up it’s going to be Amazing 😉 If y’all can recommend anything else from Sally I’ll take it.

[@zebra4281]

Unforgiven with Suranne Jones and Happy Valley with Sarah Lancashire

[@chanoquin5921]

Amazing women ❣️ Thank you so much ----- ♥️❤️♥️

[@lsc66416]

She's wonderful!

[@pjsopinion8028]

Love this woman!

[@jamess5145]

Happy Valley is the greatest TV show I've ever seen!

[@hoppetosse8]

You left out colour in your discussion about who is missing in TV writing. People of colour, disabled people, LGBT - they all have also more problems to get/be in the industry in addition to class and gender. Apart from that, thanks for the interview :)

[@janbarraclough2361]

Why does Anne put a piece of wood down her dress in the intro to the programme?

[@flowerchild4100]

its called a busk, It was a way to give the stays (what we know as a corset, although they weren't called corsets by contemporaries until after invention of the steel busk) structure down the front of the garment so that the fashionable silhouette could be created.

[@RB-xj9kr]

It wasn’t wood, haha

[@sarahmerkli7929]

You are so brillant 😍😍🙏🙏🙏

[@pebblesbam9024]

Real kissing or at least some that is convincing like in episode 7

[@jbagger331]

Fiction for cat ladies. Yup, I just checked, she owns two cats.

[@sleepyearth]

@stray dog7 Isn't that most of these stories are? Regardless of BBC, other movies are telly are the same. Please don't shove your agenda down our throats please.