TV series
Desperate Romantics
Overview
Six-part drama series set in and among the alleys, galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London, following the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of English painters, poets and critics.
Details
- First air date
- 2009-07-21
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 6 episodes
- Genres
- Drama
- Network
- BBC Two
- Country
- GB
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Aidan Turner as Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Rafe Spall as William Holman Hunt
- Tom Hollander as John Ruskin
- Samuel Barnett as John Millais
- Sam Crane as Fred Walters
- Zoë Tapper as Effie Ruskin/ Effie Millais
- Amy Manson as Lizzie Siddal
- Jennie Jacques as Annie Miller
- Josie Farmiloe as Charlotte Siddal
- Maimie McCoy as Margaret
- Phil Davis as Mr. Stone
- Mark Heap as Charles Dickens
Creators and crew
- Hilary Salmon - Executive Producer
- Franny Moyle - Executive Producer
- Ben Evans - Producer
- Paul Gay - Director
- Diarmuid Lawrence - Director
- Peter Bowker - Writer
Episodes
Episode 1
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood look for a muse to inspire their best work yet.
Episode 2
Millais sets to work on a masterpiece for art critic John Ruskin. Hunt is in turmoil.
Episode 3
As his new patron, John Ruskin insists on Millais painting his young wife Effie.
Episode 4
Returning from the Holy Land, Hunt asks Annie to marry him, unaware she has seduced Fred.
Episode 5
Ruskin threatens to end his support unless Rossetti and Lizzie calm down and focus on art.
Episode 6
Rossetti and Lizzie return from their honeymoon, and Hunt proposes to Annie Miller.
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