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Katherine Ryan Returns to Netflix with THE DUCHESS and a New Stand-Up Special

By: Nov. 08, 2018
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British-based actress and comedian Katherine Ryan will return to Netflix with a new scripted series and stand-up comedy special. Details on both titles are below.

Katherine Ryan will write, EP and star in her debut scripted series The Duchess, following the powerful and problematic choices of a fashionably disruptive single mom living in London. Her daughter, Olive, is her greatest love so she debates a second child with her greatest enemy -- Olive's dad. Can TWO WRONGS make another right?

Executive Producers are Dave Becky & Josh Lieberman for 3Arts; and Murray Ferguson, Petra Fried, and Ed Macdonald for Clerkenwell Films (The End of the F***ing World)

Katherine Ryan will bring her acclaimed, sold out 2018 UK tour show Glitter Room to Netflix for an hour-long stand-up comedy special after an unprecedented four week run at London's Garrick Theatre in the West End.

The special tapes on December 11 at The Belasco Theater in Los Angeles and launches globally in 2019.

This is Ryan's second Netflix stand-up special, following 2017's Katherine Ryan: In Trouble.

Production Companies are Irwin Entertainment, Inc.; 3Arts with executive producers Katherine Ryan, Kitty Laing, John Irwin, Dave Becky, Josh Lieberman.

Katherine Ryan is an amazingly talented writer, performer and stand-up comedian who is dominating the television and live comedy scenes - both in the UK and abroad. She recently hosted an all-female version of Channel 4's 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdownand fronted the UK version of How'd You Get So Rich also on Channel 4. She hosted The Stand Up Show with Katherine Ryan for The Comedy Network in Canada which was filmed during the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal and will be released later this year. She will star in Netflix's upcoming 10 part panel series The Fix with host Jimmy Carr and other regular panelist D.L Hughley. Katherine has judged three seasons of Comedy Central UK's Roast Battle, their highest rated series, and has co-hosted four successful series of Your Face or Mine with Jimmy Carr also for Comedy Central UK.



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