Drama Fit for a Queen: PBS Sets “Marie Antoinette” Season 2 Premiere Date

PBS announces the return to Versailles with MARIE ANTOINETTE, Season 2 premiering on Sunday, March 23, 2025, 10:00-11:00PM ET on PBS (check local listings). The period drama continues to chronicle the life of one of history’s most influential and controversial figures. Emilia Schüle (“Berlin Dance School”) returns as the title character, Marie Antoinette, and Louis Cunningham (“Bridgerton”) reprises his role as Louis XVI. The series, a CANAL+ Creation Originale in association with CAPA Drama (Newen Studios), Banijay Studios France, and Beside Productions, invites audiences to peek behind the curtain of the personal and political life of the last Queen of France.

MARIE ANTOINETTE Season 2 sees Antoinette and Louis facing unprecedented challenges at the height of their power. As financial crises loom across the nation and political rivalries intensify, the royal couple must navigate an increasingly hostile court and a changing France. From Versailles to the Palais Royal, the seeds of a revolution began to take root, threatening the very foundations of France’s long-standing monarchy.

The ensemble cast includes Freya Mavor, Jack Archer (“Call the Midwife”), Jasmine Blackborow (“Shadow and Bone”), Oscar Lesage (“Dangerous Liaisons”), Crystal Shepherd-Cross (“Chronicles of the Sun”), Roxane Duran (“Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris”), Caroline Piette (“Beats Per Minute”) and others.

“We are so excited that PBS’s audience will get to see the anticipated second season of MARIE ANTOINETTE,” says Maria Bruno Ruiz, Vice President, Program Content Strategy and Scheduling at PBS. “The tension in Season 2 builds with each episode as we experience the beginning of the end for King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette. The French debt is increasing with more loans, the Affair of the Diamond Necklace is scandalous, and the inner circle of Versailles is closing in on king and queen. Season 2 features incredible talent and storytelling along with spectacular breathtaking costumes and set designs that take viewers right inside the walls of the Palace of Versailles.”

MARIE ANTOINETTE Season 2 will be available to stream on all station-branded PBS platforms including PBS.org, and the PBS App, available on iOS, Android, Roku streaming devices, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV, Chromecast, and VIZIO, as well as PBS Passport and with PBS Masterpiece on Prime Video.

Viewers can catch up on Season 1 of MARIE ANTOINETTE on PBS.org, the PBS App, and with PBS Masterpiece on Prime Video.

Episode One “The Worst Winter” – Sunday, March 23, 2025, 10:00-11:00PM ET

Marie Antoinette and Louis embrace modern rule, but enemies lurk everywhere, even in Versailles.

Episode Two “A Poison Pen” – Sunday, March 30, 2025, 10:00-11:00PM ET

Marie Antoinette’s affair with Fersen reignites–could it be part of a carefully orchestrated plot?

Episode Three “Treacherous Legacy – Sunday, April 6, 2025, 10:00-11:00PM ET

The people of Paris openly protest against Marie Antoinette as she protects her unborn child.

Episode Four “The Pursuit of Happiness – Sunday, April 13, 2025, 10:00-11:00PM ET

Marie Antoinette overhauls her image, and the King and Queen find happiness when they experience a taste of “ordinary” life.

Episode Five “Enemies Assemble” – Sunday, April 20, 2025, 10:00-11:00PM ET

When Marie Antoinette is implicated in the diamond necklace theft, she is determined to prove her innocence and punish those responsible.

Episode Six “Hated, Humbled, Mortified”- Sunday, April 27, 2025, 10:00-11:00PM ET

As the public trial begins, events quickly spiral out of Marie Antoinette and Louis’s control.

Episode Seven “Madame Deficit” – Sunday, May 4, 2025, 10:00-11:00PM ET

Marie Antoinette deals with personal grief. Political turmoil, a struggling economy, and personal attacks push Louis toward a nervous breakdown.

Episode Eight “The End of the Beginning” Sunday, May 11, 2025, 10:00-11:00PM ET

Amid the revolution’s advance, Marie Antoinette struggles to support Louis’s rule. When he succumbs to depression, she steps up to rule in his place.

MARIE ANTOINETTE was created by Deborah Davis (“The Favourite”) and directed by Edward Bazalgette (episodes 1-4) and Raf Reyntjens (episodes 5-8). The series is a CANAL+ Creation Originale produced by CAPA Drama, Banijay Studios France, Beside Productions, MARIE ANTOINETTE, Season 2 is executive produced by Claude Chelli, Stéphanie Chartreux, Margaux Balsan, and Louise Ironside. Banijay Rights handles international distribution for Marie Antoinette and secured an agreement with PBS Distribution for the series.

	Marie Antoinette
	Network: Canal+Genre: DramaSeasons: 2Episodes: 16
	Overview Marie Antoinette is just a teenager when she leaves Austria to marry the Dauphin of France. At Versailles, under the complex rules of the French court, she suffers from not being able to live her life the way she wants, under pressure to continue the Bourbon line and secure the Franco-Austrian alliance.