BritBox announced today the North America premiere date for Outrageous, its new Original drama series about the Mitford sisters. Check out the trailer.
Based on The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family, Mary Lovell’s definitive biography of the Mitford sisters, Outrageous tells the story of these (in)famous siblings who played by their own rules — sometimes with devastating consequences.
Set against the gathering storm clouds of the 1930s, the six-episode drama series is inspired by the lives of the aristocratic Mitford sisters, six headstrong women who frequently made headlines around the world. Yet their lives would ultimately take very different paths — from Nancy, who became a celebrated author and journalist, to Jessica, who rejected her inherited privilege and dedicated her life to revolutionary causes. A family saga like no other, this is the Mitfords as they really were: unapologetic, outrageous, and utterly human.
Starring as the Mitford sisters are Bessie Carter (Bridgerton, I Hate Suzie) as Nancy Mitford, Joanna Vanderham (Crime, The Control Room) as Diana Mitford, Shannon Watson (The Jetty, Say Nothing) as Unity Mitford, Zoe Brough (Casualty, Father Brown) as Jessica Mitford, Orla Hill (Stonehouse, A Confession) as Deborah Mitford, and Isobel Jesper Jones (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, The Serpent Queen) as Pamela Mitford.
Costars include Toby Regbo (Belgravia: The Next Chapter, Platform 7) as the sisters’ brother, Tom, and Anna Chancellor (The Split, Four Weddings and a Funeral) and James Purefoy (The Veil, Malpractice), whose characters, Sydney Bowles Mitford and David Freeman-Mitford, aka Muv and Farve, sit at the top of the Mitford family tree.
Outrageous, a BritBox Original, premieres in the US and Canada with the first two episodes on Wednesday, June 18, exclusively on BritBox. Subsequent episodes will drop weekly on Wednesdays.
An official selection of this year’s Tribeca Festival, the series, created and written by Sarah Williams (Small Island, Flesh and Blood, The Long Song), also features Joshua Sasse (Love Is In The Air, Galavant) as Oswald Mosley, Jamie Blackley (Becoming Elizabeth, The Last Kingdom) as Peter Rodd, James Musgrave (Einstein and the Bomb) as Hamish Erskine, Calam Lynch (Bridgerton, Archie) as Bryan Guinness, and Will Attenborough (Our Girl, The Hollow Crown) as Joss.
The drama is produced by Firebird Pictures, a BBC Studios-owned production label, and executive produced by Elizabeth Kilgarriff, Matthew Mosley, and Craig Holleworth. Robert Schildhouse, Jess O’Riordan, and Stephen Nye will executive produce for BritBox International. Helen Perry will executive produce for UKTV. Directors for the series will be Joss Agnew (The Man Who Fell to Earth, Vigil) and Ellie Heydon (Trying), with Natasha Romaniuk (The Suspect, Fifteen-Love) as producer.
Outrageous is co-commissioned by BritBox International (for North America) and UKTV. BBC Studios brokered the co-commission and co-production deal with BritBox and UKTV and is handling global sales. Following the June premiere in North America, the series will debut in July on BritBox in Australia (date tba).
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The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell
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