Inside TV's raunchiest historical drama romps – sex toys, orgies and lesbian flings
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.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.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.”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.
