Desperate Romantics

2009 · Ended · 1 season · 6 episodes · Drama · United Kingdom

Channel BBC Two · Starring Aidan Turner, Rafe Spall, Tom Hollander

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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Episodes

6 episodes · July 2009 – August 2009
  1. Episode 1: Episode 1July 21, 2009 · 60 min
    The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood look for a muse to inspire their best work yet.
  2. Episode 2: Episode 2July 28, 2009 · 60 min
    Millais sets to work on a masterpiece for art critic John Ruskin. Hunt is in turmoil.
  3. Episode 3: Episode 3August 4, 2009 · 60 min
    As his new patron, John Ruskin insists on Millais painting his young wife Effie.
  4. Episode 4: Episode 4August 11, 2009 · 60 min
    Returning from the Holy Land, Hunt asks Annie to marry him, unaware she has seduced Fred.
  5. Episode 5: Episode 5August 18, 2009 · 60 min
    Ruskin threatens to end his support unless Rossetti and Lizzie calm down and focus on art.
  6. Episode 6: Episode 6August 25, 2009 · 60 min
    Rossetti and Lizzie return from their honeymoon, and Hunt proposes to Annie Miller.

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EPISODE LENGTH
60 minutes
FIRST AIRED
July 21, 2009
LAST AIRED
August 25, 2009

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