Upstart Crow

TV Series

2016 min TMDB 7.1

EN 4 Seasons

Comedy Drama

Comedy about the life and times of William Shakespeare as he starts to make a name for himself in London, whilst also trying to balance life as a husband and father for his family in Stratford-upon-Avon.

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TV Series

Upstart Crow

2016 min TMDB 7.1

EN 4 Seasons

Comedy Drama

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2016-05-09

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Episodes

Episode 1: A Christmas Crow

Will has promised his wife Anne that he will be home in good time for a quiet Christmas with just th...

2017-12-25 30min

Episode 2: A Crow Christmas Carol

Things get Dickensian when a mysterious stranger inspires Will to get Greene to mend his evil ways w...

2018-12-25 30min 7.0

Episode 3: Lockdown Christmas 1603

A plague has hit London and Will and Kate are isolating in Will's London lodgings just before Christ...

2020-12-21 30min 6.0

It's 1592 and Will Shakespeare is at the beginning of his career. His early work is looked down on by the literary establishment, and he's not taken seriously at home. Follow the Bard's fictional early life and the rather surprising stories about where his best ideas came from.

Episode 1: Star Crossed Lovers

Episode one sees Will struggle to find inspiration for Romeo while having to deal with an angry acto...

2016-05-09 30min 7.0

Episode 2: The Play's the Thing

Just when Will’s controversial new play is about to be presented to Queen Elizabeth, it goes missing...

2016-05-16 30min 8.0

Episode 3: The Apparel Proclaims The Man

Will hopes to move up in the world when he is invited to a high-society party hosted by Lord Southam...

2016-05-23 30min

Episode 4: Love is Not Love

Will has completed his final sonnet and senses literary immortality just around the corner. But will...

2016-05-30 30min

Episode 5: What Bloody Man is That?

The plague leads Will and his friends to escape to the family home in Stratford. On the way, they me...

2016-06-06 30min

Episode 6: The Quality of Mercy

When Will's savings go missing, he is forced to make an unusual bargain with his rival. Kate's frust...

2016-06-13 30min

In series two, Shakespeare runs his quill-ink dry with stories of jealous African generals, teenage daughters in desperate need of taming, and a musical play that may (or may not) go by the title of 'Fourth Night'.

Episode 1: The Green Eyed Monster

When a dashing African Prince comes to town, Will decides to befriend him.

2017-09-11 30min 6.0

Episode 2: I Know Thee Not, Old Man

When his old teacher invites himself to stay, Will must confront some awful memories.

2017-09-18 30min 7.0

Episode 3: I Did Adore a Twinkling Star

Will has to write a romance set in an exotic foreign location Kate has fallen for Marlowe.

2017-09-25 30min 7.0

Episode 4: Food of Love

Will Shakespeare has invented an amazing new dramatic form: the greatest hits musical.

2017-10-02 30min 7.0

Episode 5: Beware My Sting!

The women in Will's life are not impressed with his play about a strong woman humiliated.

2017-10-09 30min 7.0

Episode 6: Sweet Sorrow

Will's finished Romeo and Juliet but now there's competition over who will play Juliet.

2017-10-16 30min 7.0

With a family in Stratford and his theatre company in London, the Bard is burning the candle at both ends in series three. His teenage daughter Sue is as stroppy as ever, best mate Kit Marlowe is in danger, and neighbour Kate is desperate to be an actress – despite the fact it’s still illegal for women to do anything interesting. Meanwhile, Will has been working on his masterpiece, Hamlet. Pity everyone think it’s a comedy. Love potions are sweeping through Stratford and there’s something a little off about Love’s Labour’s Licked.