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The 30 best period dramas to watch on demand: Our critics sift through thousands of options to pick the most romantic, gripping and steamy shows to enjoy right now
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Full of beautiful costumes, steamy scheming and Machiavellian plotting, it’s a heady eight-part series with a killer cast: Alice Englert and Nicholas Denton are superb as Merteuil and Valmont, but look out too for Lesley Manville, Paloma Faith and Game Of Thrones' Carice van Houten. Sally is propelled through her grief by a mystery buried in her own past, as well as the search for a ruby which brings her into contact with friends (including JJ Feild’s dashing photographer and Hayley Atwell as his actress sister) and foes (Julie Walters’ sinister Mrs Holland). The first British adaptation of the novel in 22 years when it was first released, this film directed by Jed Mercurio (Line Of Duty) stars Holliday Grainger as Lady Constance Chatterley, radiant with often flushed cheeks, and Richard Madden as her coarse but devoted groundsman lover.
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