Desperate Romantics (2009)

07/21/2009 (EN) • 1h

Drama

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.

Top Billed Cast

Aidan Turner

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

6 Episodes

Rafe Spall

William Holman Hunt

6 Episodes

Tom Hollander

John Ruskin

6 Episodes

Samuel Barnett

John Millais

6 Episodes

Sam Crane

Fred Walters

6 Episodes

Zoë Tapper

Effie Ruskin/ Effie Millais

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Amy Manson

Lizzie Siddal

6 Episodes

Jennie Jacques

Annie Miller

6 Episodes

Josie Farmiloe

Charlotte Siddal

6 Episodes


Last Season

Miniseries

2009 | 6 Episodes

Season 1 of Desperate Romantics premiered on July 21, 2009.

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Status

Ended

Network

network

Type

Miniseries

Original Language

English

Keywords

miniseries

period drama

costume drama

19th century

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