Queen of Oz: There’s a New Queen in Town (BBC 1 Friday 16 June 2023)

Queen of Oz: There’s a New Queen in Town airs Friday 16 June 2023 on BBC 1

In this new six part comedy Princess Georgiana (Georgie – played by Catherine Tate) is the second-in-line to the British throne, but her wild antics and repeated scandals have put the entire monarchy in jeopardy. Her parents send her and her new staff—director of communications Zoe, private secretary Bernard, head of security Marc, personal assistant Matthew, lady-in-waiting Anabel, and master of the household Wei Wei—to Australia so that she can get as far away from London as possible while also preventing Australia from leaving the Commonwealth. The new Queen of Australia makes her first public appearance at a reception, where things quickly go downhill after an offensive slip-up from the tired monarch.

With Catherine Tate (Georgiana), Rob Collins (Marc Kemarre), Niky Wardley (Anabel), Jenna Owen (Zoe), William McKenna (Matthew), Robert Coleby (Bernard), Anthony Brandon Wong (Wei Wei), Daniel Lapaine (Freddie),

Season 1 Episode 1

Princess Georgiana is the black sheep of a fictional British Royal Family. A PR disaster, she’s spent her spoilt, party-girl life plastered over the tabloids. On the back of her latest scandal her father, the King, makes the unprecedented move of abdicating his Australian throne in favour of his daughter. It is hoped that giving her some real responsibility will finally be the making of her – and if it isn’t, at least shipping her off keeps her 10,000 miles away from London.

Accompanied by a useless entourage, Queen Georgiana of Australia goes kicking and screaming to a country she has zero interest in beyond the Hemsworth Brothers.

Queen of Oz: There’s a New Queen in Town airs Friday 16 June 2023 at 21:30 on BBC 1

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