The eight-part Netflix historical romance
Bridgerton has been watched by 82 million households since it premiered on Christmas Day 2020, and 41 percent of the streaming giant’s global audience. Unabashed in its admiration for a bygone world of wealth and privilege,
Bridgerton presents an alternative history in which early 19th century Regency England (so called because the Prince of Wales, the heir to the throne, ruled as “Prince Regent” in place of his mad father, King George III) was racially integrated.
Regé-Jean Page and Phoebe Dynevor in
Bridgerton
Scandal (producer Shonda Rhimes’ prior hit which ran for seven seasons from 2012 to 2018),