Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses has long been something of a YA classic. It falls into several tropes of the genre, from forbidden young love to resistance against a somewhat dystopian regime.

Peacock has acquired the BBC's YA drama series Noughts + Crosses, which imagines an alternate world in which Africa colonized Europe — but this new version of history still feels awfully familiar.

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