In a press release today, Apple exposed a very first take a look at The Buccaneers, a new drama series that will premiere on Apple television+ on Wednesday, November 8th. The series is based upon Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton's incomplete last novel of the exact same name and is produced by Katherine Jakeways.
The series, as Apple describes in its synopsis, will inform the story of a group of American ladies in the 1870s who "take off into the tightly corseted London season."
Ladies with money, men with power. New cash, old tricks. A group of fun-loving young American women explode into the tightly corseted London season of the 1870s, beginning an Anglo-American culture clash as the land of the stiff upper lip is penetrated by a revitalizing disregard for centuries of tradition. Sent to secure titles and hubbies, the buccaneers' hearts are set on much more than that, and stating "I do" is just the beginning ...
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being written by series creator Katherine Jakeways, the series is directed by BAFTA Award winner Susanna White, who likewise works as executive manufacturer together with BAFTA Award nominee Beth Willis.
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The Buccaneers will premiere its first three episodes on Apple television + on Wednesday, November 8th. The very first season of the series will be told over the course of eight episodes premiering weekly up until its season finale on Wednesday, December 13.
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