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Costume Drama Television Series: Lark Rise to Candleford, Desperate Romantics, Return to Cranford, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Land Girl
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-04.
ISBN 9781155528533
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Lark Rise to Candleford, Desperate Romantics, Return to Cranford, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Land Girls, Oliver Twist, the Love School, Oliver Twist. Excerpt: Desperate Romantics Desperate Romantics is a six-part television drama serial about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood , first broadcast on BBC Two between July 21 and August 25, 2009. Overview The series was inspired by and takes its title from Franny Moyle 's factual book about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives Of The Pre-Raphaelites . Moyle, a former commissioning editor for the arts at the BBC, approached writer Peter Bowker with the book, believing it could form the basis of an interesting television drama. Although Bowker had a self-confessed "horror of dramatised art biography", he felt that Moyle's book offered something different, viewing the Brotherhood's art largely through the filter of their tangled love lives. Discussing the series' billing as " Entourage with easels ", Moyle said: "I didn't pitch it as ' Entourage with easels' ... I pitched it as a big emotional saga, a bit like The Forsyte Saga . Having said that, I think it was a useful snapshot a way of getting a handle on the drama." The series has also been billed by the BBC as "marrying the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to the values of Desperate Housewives ." Desperate Romantics was the second time the lives of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood had been dramatised for television, the first being The Love School a six part serial first broadcast in 1975. Cast Episode list Episode: Director: Writer: Original air date: Ratings (millions) item " Episode 1 Paul Gay: Peter Bowker: July 21, 2009 (2009-07-21): 2.61 item Fred Walters introduces the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Costume Drama Television Series: Lark Rise to Candleford, Desperate Romantics, Return to Cranford, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Land Girl
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