Favorite period drama?

[Anonymous]

Pride and Prejudice, latest one


Elizabeth, with Cate Blanchett


Topsy Turvy- recounts the creation of The MIkado by Gilbert and Sullivan


Impromptu

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love Anne of Green Gables, also Pride and Prejudice (Colin, of course!), Remains of the Day, Gosford Park.

Mr Bates from Downton plays a lead role in Larkrise to Candleford. That show has a lighter spirit, and takes place about one generation before WWI. Enjoyable.

But Anne of Green Gables (the mini series) is my all-time fav.

Can I be your friend? In the past I had joked with my dh that someone on DCUM should host a P&P viewing party, and then all the like-minded people could find each other. Anne of Green Gables would totally work, too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love Anne of Green Gables, also Pride and Prejudice (Colin, of course!), Remains of the Day, Gosford Park.

Mr Bates from Downton plays a lead role in Larkrise to Candleford. That show has a lighter spirit, and takes place about one generation before WWI. Enjoyable.

But Anne of Green Gables (the mini series) is my all-time fav.

Can I be your friend? In the past I had joked with my dh that someone on DCUM should host a P&P viewing party, and then all the like-minded people could find each other. Anne of Green Gables would totally work, too!

I would attend this.

[Anonymous]

Me too! The BBC Pride and Prejudice (Firth) is the best. But the first two Anne of Green Gables (Meghan Follows) are fantastic. The third is awful though.

For really ancient period drama, I have always loved the movie Becket (Richard Burton/Peter O'Toole).

[Anonymous]

The Tudors that was on Showtime a few years ago...loved that, except some of the extreme violence/torture scenes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love Anne of Green Gables, also Pride and Prejudice (Colin, of course!), Remains of the Day, Gosford Park.

Mr Bates from Downton plays a lead role in Larkrise to Candleford. That show has a lighter spirit, and takes place about one generation before WWI. Enjoyable.

But Anne of Green Gables (the mini series) is my all-time fav.

Can I be your friend? In the past I had joked with my dh that someone on DCUM should host a P&P viewing party, and then all the like-minded people could find each other. Anne of Green Gables would totally work, too!

I would attend this.

Sounds like we should start a book-club, but for watching fabulous mini-series-based-on-books. Bring on the wine and snacks!

[Anonymous]

We've just finished watching Borgia. Very bad acting and horrendous script, but strangely compelling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bleak House. Incredible.

The one with Gillian Anderdson and the old, black & white Forsythe Saga with Eric Porter, Upstairs/Downstairs, just about any of BBC period dramas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aside from Downton Abbey, what's your favorite period drama to watch?

I love the pride & prejudice with Colin firth (not the hideous version with kiera knightly where the director never read the book). I recently watched little Dorit and far from the maddening crowd. Thank god for bbc! What are your favorites?

Is this for real? No wonder that movie was so bad!

[Anonymous]

Anne of Green Gables, Foyle's War. And thanks to DCUM I have Larkrise to Candleford on my queue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anne of Green Gables, Foyle's War. And thanks to DCUM I have Larkrise to Candleford on my queue.

I was just looking at Foyle's War at the library today and was wondering if it was worth getting. I'll have to check it out the next time I go. And I've got a copy of Season 1, Disc 2 of Larkrise to Candleford out right now from Netflix!

[Anonymous]

Berkeley Square is one of my favorites (I used to be a nanny). I even got the series on DVD for XMAS years ago. I just watched the first few episodes of the newest Upstairs, Downstairs on Netflix. Of course, now that I am hooked, I found out that Netflix doesn't have any more of their DVDs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anne of Green Gables, Foyle's War. And thanks to DCUM I have Larkrise to Candleford on my queue.

I was just looking at Foyle's War at the library today and was wondering if it was worth getting. I'll have to check it out the next time I go. And I've got a copy of Season 1, Disc 2 of Larkrise to Candleford out right now from Netflix!

Foyle's War is very good -- I saw the lead actor, Michael Kitchen, as Bolingbroke/Henry IV in London years ago, and he was AMAZING. He is wonderful in Foyle's War.

And as far as other series, I loved Middlemarch when it was Masterpiece Theater (same producer as the Colin Firth/Jennifer Ehle P&P), and the MT Jane Eyre with Toby Stevens as Mr Rochester.

[Anonymous]

Jane Eyre

[Anonymous]

All BBC miniseries:

Wives and Daughters
Bleak House
The Barchester Chronicles
He Knew He Was Right
The Way We Live Now
North and South
Cranford