BBC Drama today announced that Desperate Romantics has been commissioned from BBC Drama Production for BBC Two for transmission in 2009/10.

Set in and amongst the alleys, galleries and flesh-houses of 19th century industrial London, Desperate Romantics follows the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of ingenue English painters, poets and critics.

A relationship drama from the perspective of this iconoclastic group of dysfunctional male romantics, the series follows their lives and relationships as they shamelessly scheme and strive to find fame, fortune and success as well as love and quite a bit of sex on the way. Read more & comment »