Whilst details are currently relatively sketchy, his phonetically-titled Amazon series The Romanoffs will centre around people who believe themselves present day descendants of Russia’s doomed Romanov dynasty, ousted by revolution one hundred years ago.
The 100th anniversary of The Russian Revolution (1917) this year and the subsequent execution of Tsar Nicholas and his immediate family in 1918 appears to have acted as a spur for the development of TV dramas.
There’s been little interest in terms of TV drama outside the Russian Federation on the Romanovs, as a family, since the events of 1917-18.
In 1999, an episode of sitcom Frasier entitled A Tsar is Born toyed with the idea of the Cranes as descendants of the family, but that seems to be the most recent mainstream TV reference to The Romanov dynasty.