Place your vote for North and South as best period drama

Well, I think that N&S deserves to win but it was a bit of a performance casting my vote. Thanks, hounds.

My vote well and truly placed.
Romantc dramas do'come any better than this!!!

It wasn't so I won't.

Rome is the best period drama ever seen on TV, imo.


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Voted..and for N&S which is the best period drama I've ever seen.

I do enjoy Call the Midwife but there's no way it could beat N & S in my heart.

You do realize you can vote as many times as you like? I've voted at least 10 times for Rome using the same email and fake phone number, .

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I LOVE North and South, for me it wipes the floor from all other romantic dramas, because it depicts REAL people in real situations,it was well written, well,directed and well produced.
The acting, well... MAGNIFICENT.

Well, if you disregard they had 3 sets tops they used over and over and over again... and that RA and his leading actress had the chemistry of a wet rag.

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I think that many people would agree with you, akkrjtg. N&S scores 8.8 on IMDb and 5 stars on Amazon. And here's a review from Flavorwire which says the same (and contains a lot of lovely gifs):

http://flavorwire.com/488347/10-year-later-north-south-remains-the-greatest-period-drama-miniseries-of-all-time

And just to be even-handed, I also loved Rome (8.8 on IMDb and 4.5 on Amazon). But, it wasn't renewed for a third season, even though there was plenty of story left to tell, and so viewers, sadly, didn't love it enough. But, Rome had a ton of money pumped into it and was full of sex and violence which should have drawn the crowds but didn't. N&S did brilliantly on a budget - actors, setting, music - and audiences related to it and continue to search it out ten years later. And what always surprises me is that the blokes enjoy it as well as the women - and it is difficult to find a Jane Austen-y period drama that does that. Every man I've shown it to over the years has wanted to see more than one episode immediately after the first has finished - and that's a novelty in my experience.