Russia Roulette

- Richard Mcclure, Alison Slade, Adam Tanswell

NEW DRAMA

The Romanoffs

Available from Friday 12 October, Amazon Prime Video

Creating one of the most acclaimed TV series of all time is all well and good – but how do you possibly follow up that achievement? That was the dilemma facing Matthew Weiner, the creator of Mad Men, when the Emmy-winning drama came to an end in 2015.

For Weiner, the answer lay in the Russian Revolution – in particular the story of the Russian royal family, the Romanoffs, and the huge number of ordinary people around the world who claim they are descendants of the doomed dynasty.