If I like... costume dramas etc what else should I watch?

[TheWomanTheyCallJayne]

So I'm watching Poldark and the musketeers etc and I've watched all the usual Austen's and Bronte's as well as things like Robin Hood and Merlin.
What might I have missed?
Any ideas welcome though I have watched a lot so can't think to list them all now.
Tia

Sorry what have you been watching TheWomanThey ? Sense and Sensibility?

Dickens' 'Our Mutual Friend' was a wonderful series - really atmospheric...

The latest RT has got an insert catalogue of DVDs and ones I can see that you might like are:
The Cazalets with Hugh Bonneville
Barchester Chronicles with Alan Rickman and others
The Count of Monte Christo (described as swashbuckling bbc adaptation)
War and Peace with Anthony Hopkins etc
Brontes of Haworth - drama with Michael kitchen
The Glittering Prizes with Tom Conti and others
Strangers & Brothers with Nigel Havers and others
The Lotus Eaters with Ian Hendry
Who Pays the Ferryman? With Jack Hedley (who?!)
I enjoyed looking through the catalogue, can I come round?

Oooh I loved The Barchester Chronicles it was on R4 as well.

If you think about anything in the past is "IN COSTUME" isn't it? Unless It's been got hold of by a loony producer\director and set in the present

Wives and daughters, Daniel Daronda, Berkeley square & Emma.

I also recommend grand hotel - the actor who plays Julio is very dishy!

After reading this I may have to go find my North & South dvd.

Grand Hotel is not my cup of tea; it is sooooo melodramatic and the acting is very wooden. A bit like Emmerdale in the past

I loved the Ruth Wilson Jane Eyre. (I rather fancy Toby Stephens...)

I love the Camomile Lawn. WWII setting though so not a bonnet type costume drama.

I love a good period drama.
I love the BBC Bleak House adaption brilliant.
Fingersmith was really well done too.
The recent South Riding.

North and south.

North and South (the Gaskell one, not the US Civil War one)
South Riding
Sense and Sensibility - both Emma Thompson and Hattie Morahan versions
What about A Horseman Riding By and To Serve them all my Days - haven't seen them for years so no idea how well they've aged.

Brideshead
Forsyte Saga - Damian Lewis version was superb
Wives and Daughters
Persuasion with Sally Hawkins
Anne of Green Gables (the one with Megan Fellowes)
Ballet Shoes with Richard Griffiths as GUM
Middlemarch
P&P
Hornblower
Sharpe
Ripper Street

I quite enjoyed The Paradise and the new version of Upstairs Downstairs - both perfect Sunday night with pizza and bottle of wine viewing.

Desperate Romantics (not just an opportunity to gaze at Mr Turner in breeches (and out of them) again!)

Cold Comfort Farm
I Capture the Castle
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
House of Eliot
Chariots of Fire - my favourite film of all time

Gone with the Wind

Tea with Mussolini
The Enchanted April

the name of the Rose
Scarlet Pimpernel with Richard E Grant
Dr Zhivago - obviously the original, but I enjoyed the Keira Knightley version - Sam Neill was stupendously horrible and the costumes were beautiful

I would say 'Lillie' which is about the actress Lillie Langtree and her life towards the end of the Victorian era.

Has some great performances and her story is pretty fascinating.

If you have netflicks there are a few on there, I liked Bomb Girls (Canadian WWII) although it was a bit hammy in places.

Also try Wilkie Collins adaptations The Woman in White and The Moonstone.

Maybe Glorious 39 would be up your street (also wartime) its a Poliakoff with Romola Garai, who was also brilliant in The Hour.

Want to re-watch The Hour now.

The fluffy US Civil war North & South is more entertaining than the Gaskell grim Oop North one.

Yes as I said upthread spoonjar Lillie is being repeated on ITV Encore ATM.

Albiebee IMO Garai was terrible in The Hour, maybe it was the terribleness of the whole thing that influenced her !

I loved Penmarric and Flambards.

I would love to see the Cazalets.

I recently re-watched and loved Cranford - the acting is brilliant.

Also remember enjoying Cold Comfort Farm.

I adore Wives and Daughters.

I loved the book of Penmarric even more, with its references to Henry II , Eleanor of Aquitaine and their family.

Yes, Wives and Daughters was very good too.

The Elizabeth Gaskell novel IS the original having been written 100 or so years before John Jakes novels! Vastly superior in terms of acting even though the US civil war drama helped make PAtrick Swayze a household name!

I think 'original' referred to date of TV series rather than source of TV series.

How about Outlander, currently being shown on Amazon Prime (if you have it) I've watch the first 4 episodes today

There's the Hollow Crown series about Richard II and his successors... And The Borgias, though if you thought The Tudors were a bit trashy, you might not like thm.

Brideshead Revisited - I've never seen a TV or film adaptation that is so perfectly faithful to the original book. The performances are brilliant and it looks fabulous.