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''Desperate Romantics'' is a six-part television drama serial about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, first broadcast on BBC Two between 21 July and 25 August 2009.〔(Desperate Romantics - BBC )〕 The series somewhat fictionalized the lives and events depicted. Though heavily trailed, the series received mixed reviews and dwindling audiences. ==Overview== The series was inspired by and takes its title from Franny Moyle's factual book about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, ''Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives Of The Pre-Raphaelites''.〔(Desperate Romantics press pack: introduction ) ''BBC Press Office''. Retrieved on 2009-07-24.〕 Moyle, a former commissioning editor for the arts at the BBC, approached writer Peter Bowker with the book, believing it could form the basis of an interesting television drama. Although Bowker had a self-confessed "horror of dramatised art biography", he felt that Moyle's book offered something different, viewing the Brotherhood's art largely through the filter of their tangled love lives.〔 Discussing the series' billing as "''Entourage'' with easels", Moyle said: "I didn't pitch it as Entourage'' with easels' ... I pitched it as a big emotional saga, a bit like ''The Forsyte Saga''. Having said that, I think it was a useful snapshot – a way of getting a handle on the drama."〔 The series has also been billed by the BBC as "marrying the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to the values of ''Desperate Housewives''." ''Desperate Romantics'' was not the first time the lives of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood had been dramatised for television. In 1967 Ken Russell had directed ''Dante's Inferno'', and in 1975 there was ''The Love School'' – a six-part serial first broadcast in 1975. Whereas Bowker's drama about the PRB was an adaptation of Franny Moyles' book, ''The Love School'' (scripted by John Hale, Ray Lawler, Robin Chapman and John Prebble) was adapted into a novel published by Macmillan in 1975. The new dramatisation was heavily influenced by the earlier series.〔Chloe Johnson, "Presenting the Pre-Raphaelites: From Radio Reminiscences to Desperate Romantics", ''Visual Culture in Britain'', 1941-8361, Volume 11, Issue 1, 1 March 2010, pp. 67 – 92〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Desperate Romantics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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