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period drama

noun

  1. a drama set in a particular historical period
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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I think the worst thing you can do to the past is turn it into period drama—as much as I like Downton Abbey.

But Pejic is now taking on his most foreign role yet: as "Radu," in the Turkish period drama Fatih.

Interestingly, NBC has its own 1960s-set period drama with Playboy.

Longtime viewers will recall that the original aired on ITV, now the home to period drama rival Downton Abbey.

Starring Damian Lewis and Gina McKee, it's a sumptuous and lush period drama about thwarted desire and the chains of matrimony.

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