Harlots (TV series)

Harlots
Genre	Period drama
Created by	Alison Newman Moira Buffini
Based on	The Covent Garden Ladies by Hallie Rubenhold
Starring	Samantha Morton Lesley Manville Jessica Brown Findlay Dorothy Atkinson Pippa Bennett-Warner Kate Fleetwood Holli Dempsey Douggie McMeekin Edward Hogg Richard McCabe Danny Sapani Hugh Skinner Eloise Smyth Liv Tyler Sebastian Armesto Julian Rhind-Tutt
Composer	Rael Jones
Country of origin	United Kingdom United States
Original language	English
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	24
Production
Executive producers	Alison Owen Debra Hayward Moira Buffini Alison Newman
Producers	Elizabeth Binns Alison Carpenter Lawrence Till
Production locations	London, England, Hertfordshire, England
Cinematography	Simon Archer Hubert Taczanowski Ollie Downey
Running time	44–50 minutes
Production company	Monumental Pictures
Original release
Network	ITV Encore StarzPlay (UK) Hulu (US)
Release	27 March 2017 (2017-03-27) – 28 August 2019 (2019-08-28)
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Harlots is a British period drama television series created by Alison Newman and Moira Buffini and inspired by The Covent Garden Ladies by British historian Hallie Rubenhold. The series focuses on Margaret Wells, who runs a brothel in 18th-century London and struggles to secure a better future for her daughters in an unpredictable environment.

The series premiered on 27 March 2017 on ITV Encore in the United Kingdom, and on 29 March 2017 on Hulu in the United States. It was subsequently renewed for a second series that premiered on 11 July 2018 in the United States, and on 14 February 2019 in the UK via on-demand service StarzPlay, to which it moved after ITV Encore closed. On September 24, 2018, Harlots was renewed for a third season, which premiered in the United States on July 10, 2019, and in the UK the following day.^[1][2][3] On June 10, 2020, it was reported that Hulu had cancelled the series after three seasons.^[4] After this, the BBC acquired the UK rights to broadcast all three series, with the first two episodes of the first season aired on BBC Two on 5 August 2020.^[5]