Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~60 min/episode
- Length
- 1 season · 4 episodes
- Status
- Miniseries
- Age rating
- TV-MA
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- One season, and then it ends — a story with a last episode, not a habit.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
This four-part historical drama follows the end of Catherine the Great's reign and her affair with Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin that helped shape the future of Russian politics.
- older woman younger man relationship
- 18th century
- russian history
- palace intrigue
- catherine the great
- ottoman empire
- russian empire
- mother son relationship
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Kevin McNally
- Richard Roxburgh
- Joseph Quinn
- Clive Russell
- Paul Kaye
- Paul Ritter
- Thomas Doherty
- Iain Mitchell
- Georgina Beedle
- John Hodgkinson
- Phil Dunster
- Directed
- Philip Martin
- Created
- Nigel Williams
- Written
- Nigel Williams
Production
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 · 172 ratings
- Network & studio
- Sky Atlantic, Origin Pictures, New Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
