Series like The Crimson Petal and the White

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   Desperate Romantics

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   2009 · 60 min · Drama

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   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.

   Why it connects

   • strong shared themes: 19th century and london, england
   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   The Royals

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   2015 · Drama

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   Drama about a fictional British Royal family set in modern day London, who inhabit a world of opulence and regal tradition that caters to any and every desire, but one that also comes with a price tag of duty, destiny and intense public scrutiny.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Reign

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   2013 · 42 min · Drama

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   Mary, Queen of Scots, faces political and sexual intrigue in the treacherous world of the French court.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • a closely matched era
   • similar audience response

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   The Crown

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   2016 · Drama

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   The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • shared themes: british history and historical drama

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   Victoria

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   2016 · 45 min · Drama

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   The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years later the head of the largest empire the world had ever seen, having revitalised the throne’s public image and become “grandmother of Europe”.

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   • strong shared themes: 19th century and british history
   • strong genre and series-style overlap

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   Top Boy

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   2011 · 52 min · Drama

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   A thrilling and raw crime drama following a gang of drug dealers in Hackney, London - an honest and gripping rendition of inner-city drug and gang culture.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Howards End

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   2017 · 55 min · Drama

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   The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap

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   The Pillars of the Earth

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   2010 · Drama

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   A sweeping epic of good and evil, treachery and intrigue, violence and beauty, a sensuous, spirited story set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles in 12th Century England.

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   • strong shared themes: british history and historical
   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Lip Service

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   2010 · 60 min · Drama

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   Sex, lies and true love in modern Scotland. Following the lives and loves of a group of twenty-something lesbians living in Glasgow.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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    Dancing on the Edge

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    2013 · 60 min · Drama

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    An explosive 1930s drama following a jazz band in London at a time of huge change.

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    • strong genre and series-style overlap
    • shared themes: london, england and miniseries
    • a closely matched era

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