Period Dramas
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Film
Downton Abbey fans, get ready for another Christmas movie
Trust us: you’ll never guess who’s joining the cast.
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- Kayleigh Dray
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TV
The Underground Railroad’s first trailer has well and truly divided the internet
Here’s what people are saying about the new Amazon Prime Video series from Oscar winner Barry Jenkins.
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- Kayleigh Dray
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Celebrity
Kelly Macdonald’s best roles, from Line Of Duty to Puzzle
How many of these films and TV shows have you seen?
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- Kayleigh Dray
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TV
Love Netflix’s Bridgerton? We have big news for you...
“It seems we have a rather special announcement,” begins Lady Whistledown.
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- Kayleigh Dray
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- Kayleigh Dray
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Tom Hiddleston’s next big TV drama has just been announced
Is anyone else incredibly excited for this much-anticipated period drama?
TV
The trailer for HBO’s The Nevers has landed, and it looks so good
Starring Outlander’s Laura Donnelly, this epic new drama follows a gang of Victorian women with very unusual powers...
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- Kayleigh Dray
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TV
Suranne Jones shares the latest updates on Gentleman Jack season 2
Fans don’t have too long to wait.
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- Hollie Richardson
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Film
Why Carey Mulligan’s new period drama feels so very relevant right now
The Dig might be set in 1939, but its story is all too familiar.
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- Kayleigh Dray
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TV
The female gaze: Bridgerton’s director on evolving a new type of sex scene
Julie Anne Robinson says she deliberately flipped the way we talk about sex and power.
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- Anna Brech
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TV
Why you can’t stop obsessing over your Regency romance boyfriend
And no, it’s not because he licks a spoon like no other.
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- Kayleigh Dray
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TV
Bridgerton is getting 8 beautiful seasons? Here’s what you need to know
Netflix’s fifth-biggest original series launch of all time, it’s perhaps unsurprising that they’re planning to go all out on this one...
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- Kayleigh Dray
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- Kayleigh Dray
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Bridgerton’s Phoebe Dynevor talks sex scenes, Stormzy, and other show secrets
Here’s what Phoebe Dynevor – who stars as Daphne Bridgerton in the Regency romance – wants you to know about the must-watch show.
TV
Ridley Road: the BBC’s new anti-fascist thriller set in swinging sixties London
A compelling drama about one woman's fight against neo-Nazism.
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- Anna Brech
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TV
37 period drama series to cosy up with
Is your soul in need of soothing? Try streaming one of these brilliant TV dramas.
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- Kayleigh Dray
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TV
Why Keira Knightley isn’t doing The Essex Serpent anymore
The actor was lined up to play Cora in the TV adaptation.
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- Kayleigh Dray
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Entertainment
“It’s time for lesbian love stories that aren’t white period dramas”
The cinematic lesbian narrative is frustratingly one-dimensional – and it's excluding the richness of our stories.
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- Christobel Hastings
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Film
A second Downton Abbey film has been confirmed, but we have questions
Where can the story actually go next?
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- Hollie Richardson
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Entertainment
Keira Knightley’s next big period drama has just been announced
And we cannot wait.
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- Hollie Richardson
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- Kayleigh Dray
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A Suitable Boy fans can’t handle last night’s shock twist
Warning: this article contains spoilers for episode 5 of the BBC’s A Suitable Boy.
People
BBC One’s A Suitable Boy star Tanya Maniktala on the importance of telling her own story
The star of the new Sunday-night period drama on the need for authentic voices.
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- Helen Bownass
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