Outrageous (TV series)

Outrageous is a British historical drama television series about the Mitford sisters. The series premiered on 19 June 2025 on BritBox in the United States and on U&Drama in the United Kingdom.

Premise

Based on the story of the Mitford sisters, six sisters who refused to play by the rules and whose often-scandalous lives made headlines around the world. Set in the 1930s, it is a tale of betrayal, scandal, heartache and even imprisonment.

Cast and characters

Bessie Carter as Nancy Mitford, the eldest Mitford sister
Isobel Jesper Jones as Pamela Mitford
Joanna Vanderham as Diana Mitford
Shannon Watson as Unity Mitford
Zoe Brough as Jessica Mitford
Orla Hill as Deborah Mitford, the youngest Mitford sister
Toby Regbo as Tom Mitford, the sisters’ only brother
Anna Chancellor as Sydney Bowles, the siblings’ mother, known to them as ‘Muv’
James Purefoy as David Freeman-Mitford, the siblings’ father, known to them as ‘Farve’
Joshua Sasse as Oswald Mosley
Jamie Blackley as Peter Rodd
James Musgrave as Hamish Erskine
Calam Lynch as Bryan Guinness
Will Attenborough as Joss
Jack Michael Stacey as Derek Jackson

Production

The series, written by Sarah Williams and based on the Mary S. Lovell biography The Mitford Girls, is produced by Firebird Pictures. Directors for the series are Joss Agnew and Ellie Heydon with Natasha Romaniuk as series producer. The executive producers are Elizabeth Kilgarriff, Matthew Mosley and Craig Holleworth as well as Helen Perry for UKTV and Robert Schildhouse Jess O’Riordan and Stephen Nye for BritBox.
Matthew Mosley, executive producer and head of development at Firebird Pictures, is the great-grandson of Oswald Mosley—played by Joshua Sasse in the series—through his first wife Cynthia. He described seeing Sasse in character as his great-grandfather on set for the first time as "quite surreal."
The cast includes Bessie Carter, Orla Hill, Joanna Vanderham, Isobel Jesper Jones, Shannon Watson and Zoe Brough as the Mitford Sisters with Anna Chancellor and James Purefoy cast as their parents.
Filming was underway in June 2024. First look images from filming were released in August 2024.

Broadcast

The series premiered on 19 June 2025 on BritBox in the United States and on U&Drama in the United Kingdom.

Reception

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 88% approval rating based on 25 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Dramatizing one of Britain's most controversial families with slick presentation and superb acting, Outrageous is an engaging glimpse into the corrosive lure of fascism." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, gave a score of 74 out of 100 based on 7 critics, indicating "generally favorable".