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The Buccaneers is a historical drama series created by Katherine Jakeways. Based on the unfinished novel of the same name by Edith Wharton, the Apple TV+ series is set in the 1870s and revolves around five young and ambitious American women who arrive in London to find husbands, but their personalities result in an immensely entertaining Anglo-American culture clash. The Buccaneers stars Kristine Froseth, Alisha Boe, Matthew Broome, Josh Dylan, Barney Fishwick, Aubri Ibrag, Guy Remmers, Mia Threapleton, Josie Totah, Imogen Waterhouse, Christina Hendricks, Leighton Meester. So, if you loved the period setting, romantic drama, and compelling characters in The Buccaneers, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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The Buccaneers is a period romantic drama miniseries written by Maggie Wadey. Based on the unfinished novel by Edith Wharton,...

BBC and ITV enraged the government with early portrayals of the conflict but it is being supplanted by recent conflicts

British TV deployed rapidly – and with frequent controversy – to attack the Falklands war as a subject. The assiduous historical website British Television Drama records, in the decade after the war, 10 dramas based on the conflict.

The BBC screened five plays within five years of the events, which may surprise those who now associate the corporation with editorial caution and at the time clearly astonished the Ministry of Defence, which made numerous objections and obstructed access to actual locations and equipment.

The earliest pieces were oblique, with Don Shaw's The Falklands Factor dramatising an 18th-century dispute over the islands, and Maggie Wadey's The Waiting War focusing on military and naval families. ITV also enraged the MoD and the government with a children's series, Jan Needle's A Game of Soldiers,...

He’s had some success with a period film about one successful woman in My Week With Marilyn, so Simon Curtis is now trying his luck with a tale of five young ladies looking to secure their future. He’s entered talks to direct a new cinematic adaptation of Edith Wharton’s1938 novel, The Buccaneers. The story finds five wealthy, ambitious American socialites who tire of trying to find suitable husbands in New York. So they head to England to take part in the London season and track down landed but impoverished gentlemen who would make likely matches.Wharton died in 1937 leaving the book unfinished and it was published the following year without a conclusion. Then in 1993, after studying the synopsis and notes, Wharton scholar Marion Mainwaring finished the novel. And, independently, the BBC hired Maggie Wadey to adapt and finish the novel herself for a miniseries that hit screens...