Apple TV Plus is bringing its personal taste of Bridgerton to streaming with The Buccaneers

Bridgerton is huge enterprise for Netflix. It’s one of the watched dramas within the service’s historical past (in response to Netflix). It launched a increase in Regency romance novels, a derivative prequel, and there’s even a Bridgerton expertise. Naturally different streamers are out to duplicate the present’s success, and Apple TV Plus has entered the fray with one of the visually related reveals, The Buccaneers.

The brilliant pops of colour Bridgerton has made its hallmark are on show within the first trailer for The Buccaneers. However this present isn’t primarily based on a steamy collection of romance novels, it is primarily based on the unfinished last novel of Edith Wharton, one of many giants of American literature. And the place the books Bridgerton is predicated on had been very clearly romance novels, Wharton’s e-book blends romance with satire and a pointy critique of American wealth and British pleasure. It is a few group of rich American women who journey to England to debut and hopefully rating husbands from very previous and really noble British households. Romance, on this planet of The Buccaneers is an inconvenience.

So it is going to be very fascinating to see how intently The Buccaneers hews to its supply materials versus the present it’s driving the coattails of. Will or not it’s its personal present, and develop its personal model and rhythm, or bask within the shadow of Shonda’s empire? Extra importantly, will or not it’s good?

The present comes from the very humorous Katherine Jakeways, incorporates a huge solid together with Christina Hendricks, Kristine Frøseth, and Alisha Boe and can start airing on Apple TV Plus November 8.