Laura Lumley

A British family is trapped between culture, tradition, and the colonial sins of the past.

The Blonde Bombshell is a British two-part biographical miniseries created by Ted Whitehead, about Diana Diors, an actress and sex symbol considered to be the English counterpart to Marilyn Monroe. Keeley Hawes plays Diors in her formidable years (1945–60), and by Amanda Redman in her further career (1965–84).

Janice Beard is a dreamer who can't seem to quite make it big. She is working in an auto design company and falls for the mailboy, but he is hiding secrets.

Belmonde lives in 1990s London as an iconic , cool Frenchman modelled on the new wave cinema of the 1960s. Really he is English and middle class – a fact that his family won't let him forget!