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Joanis an upcoming British six-part crime drama television series created by Anna Symon for ITVX and The CW. Sophie Turner plays real-life character Joan Hannington, a figure known as "the Godmother" by certain aspects of the British criminal underworld. Paul Frift serves as producer and the series is directed by Richard Laxton.

The six-part series was announced in November 2022 with Sophie Turner leading the cast as Joan Hannington. It was created by Anna Symon, adapting from Hannington's 2004 memoir I Am What I Am: The True Story of Britain's Most Notorious Jewel Thief, with the pair meeting as Symon was writing the series.[2] The project comes from Snowed-In Productions[3] and co-produced in association with All3Media International, which will handle distribution of the show outside the United Kingdom, and The CW, which will air it in the United States.[4]

Filming for the series began in May 2023 in Herne Bay, Kent.[6] Filming also took place that month in Birmingham, England.[7] Filming also took place in August 2023 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. Filming also took place in September 2023 in Malvern, Worcestershire.

Joan Edith Rance Kent was best known by her initials, the initials that now adorn the drama theater at Cibola High School. Born and raised in the city of Chicago during the Great Depression, her early life had twin tragedies with losing her sister and having polio that resulted in the loss of use of an arm. Attending camps for kids affected by polio she came to enjoy swimming in cool lake waters and leading other young adults at camp. This was perhaps the beginning of her interest in drama. Joan attended several colleges including University of Montana and Layola. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in English and Chemistry.

Her directing career touched people young and old. Many former students now in mid-life remember how Mrs. Kent changed their lives for the better. Her students and plays won acclaim and awards from drama presentations to the local community and internationally in Canada. Many of her students continued on to acting careers and most, if not all, have stories about the plays they were in, the friendships built, and the experiences they had in drama, set building, and lighting. In retirement, Joan traveled to places near and far including England, Australia, Spain, Italy, and New Zealand. In America, her travels often took her to Alaska and Hawaii to visit daughter, son, and grandchildren. Her final years were blessed with wonderful neighbors and visits by past students and friends. Most notable were the celebrations of her 80th and 90th birthdays. Friends and neighbors came to wish her well. Joan Kent (aka JERK) passed out of this world and into the universal stage a few days after her 93rd birthday where she will be the director in the heavenly play. Her first directing experience is sure to be a hit. She is survived by her half-sisters, Bonnie Jo Walno of Colorado and Debby Hughs of New York, daughter Connie Friedrichs (husband Ed), sons Chris Kent (wife Lynn), Chad Kent (wife Susan), and adult grandchildren KC, Carson, Adam and Malissa, and great grandchildren.

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Joan Kane went through a lot as a child in Brooklyn in the 1960s. The kind of events that take years of therapy to come to terms with. Lucky for us, Kane has done the hard work to process, heal, and ultimately share her experiences in the form of the touching and well-crafted 50-minute solo drama Almost 13, now playing at the Capital Fringe Festival.

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Kane has partnered with Bruce A! Kraemer, who directs the show and handles the minimal lighting and sound requirements. Kane and Kraemer seem like a tight-knit team. Both handle the moments when the show goes to very dark places with stylistic grace. Almost 13 is playing at Capital Fringe as part of a larger tour of the U.S. and Canada. Catch it where you can.

While it may have once been the go-to destination for buzzy teen dramas and interconnected superhero shows, The CW is working hard to change its image to something more mainstream. The network is under new management, who are clearly eager to appeal to a broader swath of viewers than the more genre-focused programming of yesteryear might have appealed to. The CW's now airing everything from unscripted reality series to live sports and embracing acquiring or jumping on board foreign productions from Canada and the U.K.

As a result, while The CW may never be a destination for Anglophile viewers, it does mean that the network has occasionally started bringing British properties across the pond, such as the apocalypse comedy Everyone Else Burns. That trend is set to continue with Joan, a historical true crime drama starring Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones).

The series has been officially announced as part of The CW's Fall primetime programming lineup, and while a premiere date wasn't confirmed, it will likely launch in October. The six-part drama aims to dramatize the life of Joan Hannington, a housewife who became one of the most notorious jewel thieves in England during the 1980s.

Known as "The Godmother" among the denizens of London's criminal underworld, Hannington was an expert at check fraud, often donning disguises and changing her accent so she wouldn't be recognized while on a job. But her great love was apparently always diamonds, which she would steal from shops by swallowing whole.

Turner plays the titular Joan, chronicling her rags-to-riches rise as she works her way into the upper echelons of London's criminal elite. The story is largely based on Hannington's shocking 2004 memoir, I Am What I Am: The True Story of Britain's Most Notorious Jewel Thief, and if the behind-the-scenes posts on social media are anything to go by, it seems that the Godmother herself was at least somewhat involved in the production.

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Joan was born on December 2, 1929 to Paul and Gladys (Williams) Nelson in Carrington, ND and was christened Joanne Elise Nelson; however, she later changed her name to Joan because she thought it sounded more sophisticated. She attended schools in Carrington, Fargo, Towner, Valley City and Jamestown, graduating from Jamestown College in 1951. She always spoke fondly of her days at Jamestown College where she was very active in choir, band, and drama, once even playing the lead role of Lady Macbeth. It was also there that she met her husband, Robert W. Simons, and they were married in 1954. Together they had two children whom they affectionately called Barbie and Bobby.

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