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Desperate Romantics (2009)

First aired July 21, 20091h/ep1 season · 6 epsEnded
7.4

22 votes

Drama
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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.

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Aidan Turner

Aidan Turner

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Rafe Spall

Rafe Spall

William Holman Hunt

Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander

John Ruskin

Samuel Barnett

Samuel Barnett

John Millais

Sam Crane

Sam Crane

Fred Walters

Zoë Tapper

Zoë Tapper

Effie Ruskin/ Effie Millais

Amy Manson

Amy Manson

Lizzie Siddal

Jennie Jacques

Jennie Jacques

Annie Miller

Josie Farmiloe

Josie Farmiloe

Charlotte Siddal

Maimie McCoy

Maimie McCoy

Margaret

Phil Davis

Phil Davis

Mr. Stone

Mark Heap

Mark Heap

Charles Dickens

Rebecca Davies

Rebecca Davies

Fanny Cornforth

Dyfrig Morris

Dyfrig Morris

William Morris

Peter Sandys-Clarke

Peter Sandys-Clarke

Edward Burne-Jones

Natalie Thomas

Natalie Thomas

Jane Burden

Seasons

Status

Ended

Language

English

Type

Miniseries

Last Air Date

August 25, 2009

Networks

BBC Two

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