The people of Victorian London unite to combat supernatural threats from some of literature's most terrifying creatures.

Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in...

Beautiful teenager Jim finds himself in Soho, where he falls in with the Raconteurs, a gang of unusual, high-class male escorts who specialize in post-coital conversation. From shy novice to sought-after escort and eventually artist's muse, Jim would be the toast of the town if it wasn't for his annoying affliction. He suffers from Stendahl Syndrome, a rare condition which causes him to hallucinate and faint when he encounters real works of art. Could...

A London card-shark scrambles to pull together funds after losing everything he owns in a fixed poker game.

A London woman's love life and career both hinge, unknown to her, on whether or not she catches a train.

A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, or, indeed, life itself. But Jenny is brought up to speed fast once she joins a team of midwives who provide care to the poorest women.

The final season finds its end during the cold winter of 1901, taking the heroes to a place where a dark secret they all share emerges to destroy the lives they've built.

Through hard work, talent, and ambition, a servant girl rises from scullery maid to become the finest chef in London and Edwardian society's premier hostess. Along the way her beauty and spirit attract the attention of high-placed admirers.

Three extraordinary stories all lived out within a hundred London streets. Leon Butler's script charts interconnecting London stories, including those of a former rugby star and his wife, a small time drug dealer, and a rich playboy.

Lizzie has been accused of murdering her husband, and her death by hanging seems all but inevitable. That is until Detective Inspector John Kildare is assigned to the case of a serial killer who murders innocent victims while leaving his distinctive signature in blood.