Bridgerton is back and there are more boobs than ever before!
As we revealed earlier this week, Sophie Canale, the Netflix show’s new costume designer, teased: “There can never be too much boob in Bridgerton… we always want more boob!”
Fans of the Regency-set series got hot under the collar last year as Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) romanced the Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page).
The red-hot action involved plenty of alfresco trysts, a romp up a ladder and even an orgy. So forget the idea period dramas are stuffy – here, Nadine Linge looks at the raunchiest TV series that have aired.
Tipping The Velvet
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Keeley Hawes starred in this Victorian BBC drama from 2002 which featured lesbian and topless sex scenes and sex toys in the most explicit programme ever shown on the channel at that time.
Writer Andrew Davies promised it would be “absolutely filthy” and – unsurprisingly – pulled in five million viewers, double the normal figure for a BBC Two show.
The Tudors
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This ran on the BBC between 2007 and 2010, starred Jonathan Rhys-Myers as King Henry VIII and followed his reign and six marriages.
Also featuring Natalie Dormer and Henry Cavill, there were sex scenes and nudity in almost every episode – including in a forest and on a boat.
Rhys-Meyers said of the Tudor period: “Sex was what you did when the sun went down.”
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
The 1928 D.H. Lawrence book was once banned for its explicit scenes.
And back in 1993 this erotic drama starring Joely Richardson as the posh Lady Chatterley and Sean Bean as her bit-of-rough groundskeeper raised eyebrows.
Bean appeared naked and the BBC drama was attacked by the Broadcasting Standards Council for “unduly protracted’’ love scenes.
Versailles
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This X-rated French-set historical drama steamed up Sunday nights on the BBC for three series before it was axed in 2018.
The number of explicit scenes in the second series totalled 30 – including a 24-person orgy, male and female nudity, violence and torture.
But Tory MP Andrew Bridgen said: “There are channels where, if you wish to view this sort of material, you would have to pay for it.”
Gentleman Jack
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Former Corrie star Suranne Jones played “Britain’s first modern lesbian” in this 2019 BBC mini-series.
Based on the real story of rich landowner Anne Lister, who bedded a string of women in secret same-sex affairs during the 1800s and was nicknamed “Gentleman Jack” for her love for traditional male activities, it boasted some saucy scenes.
One saw her performing a sex act on another woman while in Paris.
Fans will be pleased to hear series two is airing this spring.
Harlots
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Shown on the Beeb, Harlots followed two 18th century women competing to have the most successful brothel in London.
With a starry cast including Liv Tyler, Samantha Morton and Lesley Manville, it had romps in carriages, sex on tables and heaving bosoms aplenty.
It was apparently inspired by “guide book” Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies, a real-life directory of sex workers in London which was published regularly from 1757 to 1795.
The Great
Telling the tale of Russian empress Catherine the Great, this series, which aired on Channel 4 in 2020, went with one Elle of a bang.
Stars Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult both stripped off for saucy scenes and there were also romps between Catherine and her lover.
Elle said: “She was very open and free and loved sex, so that’s obviously something that I wanted to touch upon.”
Outlander
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Actors Catriona Balfe and Sam Heughan were at the raunchy time-travel romp’s series six (or should we say series sex) premiere this week.
It follows a Scottish nurse in 1945 who is transported back to 1743 and falls in love with a dashing Highland warrior.
From the couple’s red-hot wedding night to outdoor romps and a sizzling fireside scene, this series is as hot as a Scotch bonnet. Watch on Amazon Prime or Starz.
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