Top 10 awesome shows like North & South that you will enjoy watching
You just finished watching North & South and you can't get over how good this show was. Now you want to watch more of such masterpieces. We have curated a list of similar shows which are created by the likes of Brian Percival, Daniela Denby-Ashe and Richard Armitage . Here goes the list -
- The Forsyte Saga
- Jane Eyre
- Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
- Room at the Top
- The Glass Virgin
- Tipping the Velvet
- Brideshead Revisited
- Downton Abbey
- Port Charles
- Scarlet and Black
The Forsyte Saga
Chronicles the lives of three generations of the upper-middle-class British family, the Forsytes, from the 1870s to 1920.
This show, created by Christopher Menaul, Damian Lewis and Rupert Graves, scores 8.1 on IMDb.
Genres - Romance | Drama
You can watch this on Hoopla.
Jane Eyre
A young governess falls in love with her brooding and complex master. However, his dark past may destroy their relationship forever.
This show, created by Susanna White, Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens, scores 8.3 on IMDb.
Genres - Romance | Drama
You can watch this on Amazon Video.
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
A story of unrequited love set in 1930s London.
This show, created by Simon Curtis, Bryan Dick and Sally Hawkins, scores 7.5 on IMDb.
Genres - Romance | Drama
Room at the Top
An adaption of John Braine's novel.
This show, created by Aisling Walsh, Matthew McNulty and Maxine Peake, scores 6.6 on IMDb.
Genres - Romance | Drama
You can watch this on Amazon Prime Video.
The Glass Virgin
Set in 1870s England, the story tells of Annabella Lagrange and the terrible secret her wealthy parents have kept from her. When she finally learns the truth, she runs away and eventually finds solace in the company of her family's former groom, a young Irishman with the very Spanish name of Manuel Mendoza. Together they travel the Northumbria countryside from job to job in his horse and caravan, Annabella trapped in limbo between her upper class upbringing which has rejected her, and the working class who are sometimes suspicious of her, only Manuel understanding her situation.
This show, created by Sarah Hellings, Jan Graveson and Christine Kavanagh, scores 7.1 on IMDb.
Genres - Romance | Drama
Tipping the Velvet
The story of Nan Astley who falls in love with three different women on her journey to stardom and happiness in 1887 Victorian England.
This show, created by Geoffrey Sax, Rachael Stirling and Keeley Hawes, scores 7.7 on IMDb.
Genres - Romance | Drama
You can watch this on Amazon Video.
Brideshead Revisited
Two young men meet at Oxford. Charles Ryder, though of no family or money, becomes friends with Sebastian Flyte when Sebastian throws up in his college room through an open window. He then invites Charles to lunch after his teddy bear Aloysius "refuses to talk to him" unless he is forgiven. Charles becomes involved with Sebastian's family, Catholic peers of the realm in Protestant England. The story is told in flashback as Charles, now an officer in the British Army, is moved with his company to an English country house that he discovers to be Brideshead, Sebastian's family home where Charles has a series of memories of his youth and young manhood, his loves, life, and a journey of faith and anguish.
This show, created by Charles Sturridge, Jeremy Irons and Diana Quick, scores 8.5 on IMDb.
Genres - Romance | Drama
You can watch this on Tubi Tv.
Watch TrailerDownton Abbey
A chronicle of the lives of the British aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the early 20th Century.
This show, created by Brian Percival, Hugh Bonneville and Laura Carmichael, scores 8.7 on IMDb.
Genres - Romance | Drama
You can watch this on Amazon Prime Video.
Watch TrailerPort Charles
Spin-off of "General Hospital" focusing on the professional and personal lives of the first year interns at Port Charles' General Hospital. Now residents at the hospital, the doctors and their friends and families are constantly threatened by Dr. Greg Cooper who may or may not be the General Homicide killer. Cooper tries to get revenge on all of them because he was dropped from the hospital's intern program.
This show, created by Andrew Lee, Julie Pinson and Jon Lindstrom, scores 6.7 on IMDb.
Genres - Drama | Romance
Scarlet and Black
The story of an ambitious but impoverished young man who seduces women of social class in order to improve his own prospects in 19th century France.
This show, created by Ben Bolt, Ewan McGregor and Christopher Fulford, scores 7.2 on IMDb.
Genres - Romance | Drama