Mr Selfridge

Created by Andrew Davies

On PBS, ITV1

A visually sumptuous period drama centered on an ambitious American entrepreneur's theatrical reinvention of retail in Edwardian London, balancing ambition and excess with the era's social transformation.

Mr. Selfridge recounts the real life story of the flamboyant and visionary American founder of Selfridge's, London's lavish department store. Set in 1909 London, when women were reveling in a new sense of freedom and modernity, it follows Harry Gordon Selfridge ('Mile a Minute Harry'), a man with a mission to make shopping as thrilling as sex. Pioneering and reckless, with an almost manic energy, Harry created a theater of retail where any topic or trend that was new, exciting, entertaining - or just eccentric - was showcased.