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Desperate Romantics

2009 Drama 1 season

TMDB rating 7.4/10 Ended

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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    TMDB rating 7.8/10

Cast and details

  • Aidan TurnerDante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Rafe SpallWilliam Holman Hunt
  • Tom HollanderJohn Ruskin
  • Samuel BarnettJohn Millais
  • Sam CraneFred Walters
  • Zoë TapperEffie Ruskin/ Effie Millais
  • Amy MansonLizzie Siddal
  • Jennie JacquesAnnie Miller
  • Josie FarmiloeCharlotte Siddal
  • Maimie McCoyMargaret
  • Phil DavisMr. Stone
  • Mark HeapCharles Dickens
Network
BBC Two
First aired
Jul 21, 2009
Latest episode
Aug 25, 2009

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