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Soo - anyone else watch Channel 4's two part program ostensibly about Lord Byron, but in fact really about Rupert Everett and his enormous ahem! ego?

Just me, then.

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[vampirefever.livejournal.com]

Yep - just you. I found the ads previewing the show annoying, so knew I wouldn't handle a whole hour of Rupert Everett talking about himself.

I am watching 'Desperate Romantics' though, which has a pretty vampire doing a nice little turn as Rossetti :D

[evilmaniclaugh.livejournal.com]

Desperate Romantics is THE programme I am watching atm. I'm loving the nastiness of the beautiful Rossetti and also shouting at the screen when he's being such a manipulative little snake. Fab telly.

XXX

[vampirefever.livejournal.com]

It's great telly. Not only is Rossetti intriguing, I'm trying to work out why Ruskin keeps throwing his wife at Millais. Is Ruskin meant to be gay or just a bit twisted?

I'm old enough to remember when BBC2 did another Pre-Raphaelite drama back in the 1970s. I was obsessed with Hunt in that one. In this one, Rossetti is definitely the more interesting character. Roll on 9pm :-)

[evilmaniclaugh.livejournal.com]

I think Ruskin is gay and is secretly wanting Millais and is throwing his missus at him to see if he can catch them in the act and get off over it.

I may be watching through slash goggles though. ::blushes::

We are both not-very-youngish and yet I do not recall the drama of which you speak. I was probs obsessing over Brideshead. :D

[vampirefever.livejournal.com]

I watch everything through slash-tinted goggles *g*

I'm racking my brain to try and remember the name of the drama. I know it didn't have the words 'Pre-Raphaelite' in the title though. It was on very early in the 1970s around when 'The Pallisers' was screened. It's a bugger because without the title, I can't even find it on IMDB :(

[evilmaniclaugh.livejournal.com]

Try harder Ali, try harder. :D I love my period dramas and I can't believe I missed one. I was brought up on By the Sword Divided and The Onedin Line and Poldark and Flambards etc.

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[shapinglight]

I remember it too but also can't remember the name.

Ah, I knew it, I knew it! The Brotherhood.

[vampirefever.livejournal.com]

You beat me to it; I remembered on the tube going home :)

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Yep - just you

:( I was hoping to have someone to snark about it with. Oh well.

I haven't managed to watch Desperate Romantics properly. It's been on in the background, so I've seen it in passing.

Also, I remember that other Pre-Raphaelites series. Wasn't Rossetti played by Ben Kingsley?

[vampirefever.livejournal.com]

I didn't remember much about the other drama except that I enjoyed it. However, having seen the IMDB page for it; you're definitely right about Ben Kingsley. Gold star that girl :-)

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