Chris Van Dusen created ‘Bridgerton’, a historical romance television series for Netflix. Based on Julia Quinn’s book series, this is Shondaland’s first written drama for Netflix. It focuses around an eponymous fictional family and takes place in the competitive world🌱 of Regency era London’s ton d🦂uring the social season in the early 1800s, when young marriageable nobles and gentry are presented to society.