iPlayer is packed full of brilliant BBC dramas including thriller The Serpent
The Serpent, Bloodlands, Line of Duty, Normal People, Killing Eve, Us, Strike and A Suitable Boy are just some of the very best BBC dramas available to watch right now on BBC iPlayer
Here’s our guide to a string of great BBC dramas, how many episodes there are and what the critics said.
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The thriller tells the astonishing true story of Charles Sobhraj, a serial killer (nicknamed The Serpent) who targeted Western travellers during the 70s and became one of Interpol’s most wanted men.
December 28, 2020 at 12:25 pm
Think of a Regency-set period drama and you might expect a restrained and genteel affair; tea will be sipped and gossip might be whispered. Viewers may be invited to peer into panelled parlours lit by flickering candlelight, or an opulent Assembly room to watch a chaste yet highly charged Quadrille.
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Bridgerton takes this further, promising an on-screen Regency romance that feels made for the modern era. There are many playful and stylised elements; brightly lit settings and bold primary colour palettes, not to mention the string quartet arrangements of chart-topping favourites by Ariana Grande or Shawn Mendes. It is these choices made by creator and showrunner Chris Van Dusen and the team behind the new drama, explains Dr Hannah Greig, that help to translate the modern and ground-breaking nature of Georgian high society for a 21st-century audience. A historian of 18th-century Britain and the Beau Monde, Greig served as