Disney+ Officially Has a New ‘Bridgerton’ Rival With Its Lavish Romance Series

Published Nov 8, 2026, 8:45 PM EST Erielle Sudario is a Collider News and Feature Author from Australia and has worked in the journalism industry since 2018. She has a passion for entertainment and pop culture news and has interviewed YouTubers, voice actors, film directors, and musicians throughout her career. When she's not writing, you can see Erielle building keyboards, reading a good book, playing video games, and creating content on social media. Sign in to your Collider account It's been nine months since Season 4 of Bridgerton aired. With Season 5 greenlit and scheduled to premiere in 2027, this latest Hulu series could fill the gap, featuring royal drama and a two-episode-per-week release schedule. It has also recently become a streaming hit, even without an official Rotten Tomatoes score. As a result, the series could be the perfect binge for fans waiting for the next season of Bridgerton to arrive on Netflix. In recent years, several South Korean productions have adapted popular web novels and webtoons, with many finding success. One notable example is Solo Leveling, which began as a web novel before being adapted into an anime. The show has received two seasons, and a movie has been greenlit, making it one of Crunchyroll's most successful titles. Another example is the K-drama series All of Us Are Dead, which premiered on Netflix in 2022 and has a second season in development. Clearly, these adaptations have an audience and also introduce new viewers to the original stories. Recently, Disney+ and Hulu released their live-action adaptation of The Remarried Empress, based on the webtoon of the same name, which began publication in 2019. The show follows Empress Navier (Shin Min-a), whose marriage to her husband, Emperor Sovieshu (Ju Ji-hoon), falls apart when he falls for a runaway slave named Rashta (Lee Se-young), whom he takes as his mistress. Sovieshu eventually files for divorce, which Navier accepts on the condition that she can marry Prince Heinrey of the Western Empire (Lee Jong-suk). Since its debut, the series has become an instant streaming hit, landing at No. 2 on Disney+'s Top 10 TV Shows Worldwide chart, between VisionQuest and All's Fair. As of this writing, the first four episodes have aired, with six more scheduled and the finale set to premiere on November 25. Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Iconic Romance Is Your Favorite? Harry & Sally · Love & Basketball · Heated Rivalry · Titanic Four great love stories, and four completely different ideas of what love actually is. One is a friendship that took twelve years to admit itself. One is two people who refuse to stop competing. One happens entirely behind closed doors. And one lasts five days and never stops mattering. Eight questions decide which one is really yours. 🍂Harry & Sally(1989) 🏀Love & Basketball(2000) 🏒Heated Rivalry(HBO Max) 🚢Titanic(1997) FIND YOUR ROMANCE → 01 How does your love story start? The first scene tells you what kind of story this is going to be. AWe are friends for years before either of us says anything. BWe want the same thing and neither of us backs down. CNobody can know, including our closest friends. DOne look across a room and everything changes. NEXT QUESTION → 02 What do the two of you keep arguing about? Every great romance has one fight it has over and over. AWhether this is actually happening, and what to call it. BWhose career comes first this year. CWhether we will ever be honest about this in public. DNothing small. When we fight, it is about everything. NEXT QUESTION → 03 How do you show somebody that you love them? Grand gestures are easy to write. This is the harder question. AI remember every single thing they have told me. BI show up to the things that matter to them. CI keep their secrets like they are my own. DI would give up something enormous for them. NEXT QUESTION → 04 What is actually standing in the way? There is always something. Which something tells you the genre. ATiming. We keep finding each other at the wrong moment. BAmbition. We both want big lives and they do not match. CThe world. It is not safe to be open about this yet. DEverybody around us has decided this cannot happen. NEXT QUESTION → 05 Which romantic moment gets you every single time? Be honest. There is one that works on you and you know which. ASomebody running across a city to say it before midnight. BSomebody in the stands who stayed until the very end. CA look across a crowded room that nobody else catches. DSomebody promising to hold on, and meaning it. NEXT QUESTION → 06 What would you actually risk for the right person? Every romance asks this. Most people find out far too late. AA friendship I could never get back. BThe plan I have had for my life since I was a kid. CMy privacy. All of it would become public. DEverything. I would not think about it for long. NEXT QUESTION → 07 Where are the two of you in ten years? Some love stories are about the meeting. Some are about the staying. AStill talking. We have never run out of things to say. BBuilding something together, both of us still ambitious. CFinally open about it, after years of being careful. DApart, and I still think about it constantly. NEXT QUESTION → 08 Which of these sounds most like something you would say? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your romance. AI would rather talk to you than anybody else, forever. BI am not giving up either of us. We find a way to have both. CThis is mine, and I am not explaining it to anyone. DI would do the whole thing again, even knowing how it ends. REVEAL MY ROMANCE → Roll The Credits Your Romance Is…Four love stories, four completely different ideas of what it means to be somebody's person. This is the one that matches how you actually fall, and what it would ask of you. Harry & SallyYou do not fall for strangers. You fall for the person you have already been talking to for years, which is the slowest and by some distance the most durable way anybody has found to do this. When Harry Met Sally made the case that the best romance is an argument you enjoy, conducted over a decade, by two people refusing to admit what is happening. You want to be known rather than swept away. Somebody who remembers your worst story is doing better work than anybody arriving with flowers. The film is unusually honest about timing. These two are wrong for each other repeatedly until suddenly they are not, and neither of them engineered it. You would still be talking about everything at eighty. That is the entire promise. Love & BasketballYou want a partner, not an audience. Somebody who wants their own life as badly as you want yours, and who would never ask you to be smaller to make the relationship easier. This is the rare romance where both people have a real career and the film takes both of them equally seriously. You would rather be pushed than protected. The right person for you is also a bit of a rival, and that never entirely goes away. It understands the actual problem in ambitious relationships. Not whether you love each other, but whose turn it is this year. You would still be competing at forty. That is how you would know it was working. Heated RivalryThe intensity was never the problem. The secrecy is. You are drawn to a love that lives entirely in private, and to the particular ache of wanting somebody you are not supposed to want. Heated Rivalry runs on the oldest engine in romance: two people on opposite sides, meeting in secret, getting far more attached than either of them planned. You keep your private life genuinely private, and something in you finds hidden things more real than public ones. The tension is not only between the two of them. It is between what they have and what it would cost either one to say it out loud. Years of this, and the whole story is really about whether either of them will finally stop hiding. TitanicYou do not do this cautiously. When it happens for you it is immediate and total and it rearranges everything, and you would not accept a smaller version of it. Titanic gave us the biggest romance in film history and then made it last about five days, which is precisely the point of it. You measure love by intensity rather than duration. A few days of the real thing beats decades of something merely comfortable. The film is not only about the romance. It is about a woman who went on to live an enormous life afterwards because of it. You would still be telling this story at a hundred years old, and telling it exactly the same way. ↻ RETAKE THE QUIZ What To Watch If You Like 'Bridgerton' As of this writing, filming for Bridgerton Season 5 has ended, and while Netflix has confirmed the series will return in 2027, it has yet to announce an official release date. According to the streaming giant, the upcoming season will take place two years after the events of Season 4's finale and follow the romance between Michaela Stirling (Masali Baduza) and Lady Francesca Stirling (Hannah Dodd). So, while fans wait for the next season, as well as the next episode of The Remarried Empress, here are some other shows worth watching. One show worth watching is The Crown, a Netflix series based on the reign of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. The show ran for six seasons, with its final season covering events from 1997 to 2005. The final season was also filmed during the period of Queen Elizabeth II's death in 2022, which influenced how the series concluded. Just like Bridgerton, this show is filled with royal drama, but its story is inspired by real historical events. But if you're after something short, then this very specific Doctor Who episode should do the trick. Season 14's "Rogue" follows the Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and his companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) as they travel to 1813 to attend a ball, only to cross paths with a bounty hunter named Rogue (Jonathan Groff), who's hunting down an alien shapeshifting species called the Chuldur. These aliens happen to be Bridgerton fans, "cosplaying" as humans to experience the drama and emotion. Just like The Remarried Empress, this Doctor Who episode is also available on Disney+. The Remarried Empress is available to stream on Hulu and Disney+. Follow Collider for more updates. Release Date November 3, 2026 Network Disney+ Directors Jo Soo-won Writers Yeoh Gee-na Cast Shin Min-a Navier Ellie Trovi Release Date November 3, 2026 Network Disney+ Directors Jo Soo-won Writers Yeoh Gee-na Cast Shin Min-a Navier Ellie Trovi The Remarried Empress is a 2026 miniseries about Empress Navier, who rules the Eastern Empire with Emperor Sovieshu. When Sovieshu seeks a divorce after falling for a runaway slave, Navier consents on the condition of remarrying Prince Heinrey of the Western Kingdom.