Mr Selfridge (2013)
- Genre
- drama film, drama television series
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 4 seasons, 40 episodes
- Rated
- TV-14
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 113 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This series follows American entrepreneur Harry Selfridge as he opens a luxury department store in early 1900s London. It shows his rise, his relationships with staff and high society, and his eventual downfall due to financial troubles.
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What happens
Mr Selfridge is a British period drama television series about Harry Gordon Selfridge and his department store, Selfridge & Co, in London, set from 1908 to 1929. It was co-produced by ITV Studios and Masterpiece/WGBH for broadcast on ITV. The series began broadcasting on ITV on 6 January 2013 and 30 March 2016 on PBS in the United States. In the series, Selfridge has successfully modernized the department store Marshall Field's in Chicago before deciding to open the finest department store in the world in London's Oxford Street. The socialite Lady Mae Loxley is among his first allies. The series depicts a number of historical figures who have interactions with Selfridge or his staff over the following decades, including (among others) the French aviator Louis Blériot, the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, the detective fiction writer and spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle, the Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton, and the British monarch Edward VII. By the end of the series in the late 1920s, Selfridge is forced to step down from his leadership position after acquiring the store William Whiteley Limited and unwittingly inheriting its debts to unpaid suppliers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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