Or, if you prefer your royal history to date back a bit further, consider watching Victoria. Downton fans will appreciate the gorgeous costumes, and the sometimes scandalous storylines involving Queen Victoria, her family, and the people who work for them. Another PBS favorite, Grantchester is for those British period drama enthusiasts who also appreciate a series centered around solving crimes oh and hot clergymen.
Damien Lewis, pre Homeland and Billions , plays a tight-lipped property owner who frequently burns with unrequited love. We can see where he honed those Sargeant Brody "smothering secret" chops. Downton lovers will find plenty of rivalries, secrets, and scandals to carry them through the hole in their hearts, especially considering the part series takes place on familiar turf: the aristocracy of the s to the s.
That's what we call a weekend. We say the scruffy, hipster take on the Robin Hood convention mimics Downton 's sly eyeroll at the sweeping romantic genre. In this version, after battling in the crusades for five years, the green-hooded avenger finds himself competing for his childhood love, Lady Marian, with the financially stable and emotionally manipulative Guy of Gisborne.
Downton fans will love the self-reverential wit and modern take on strong female characters—Lady Marian doesn't easily fall for Robin's lines—dressed in stunning, beaded, medieval hooded gowns, of course. Best part, the show is available for immediate streaming on Netflix. Before there was Downton , there was Upstairs, Downstairs , the original soapy look at life in both the master and servants quarters.
Fans were so obsessed with the version, that a reboot aired in Both are streamable, and worth the time investment, on Amazon. Watch Now. Shot in the Palacio de la Magdalena on the north coast of Spain, the majestic setting of the Grand Hotel alone will make Downton fans swoon.
But the fast-paced mystery and over-the-top romance will inspire you to take on all three seasons of this Spanish language drama, which is set in the early 20th century. Although not everyone in the UK loves it, audiences who like prestige dramas and want their fix of mostly real-life palace intrigue need to look no further than the Peter Morgan series.
Parade 's End earned the nickname "the highbrow Downton Abbey ," which is really saying something since Downton 's reputation is rather pinky-in-the-air. Based on a series of well-respected books of the same name by lauded playwright Tom Stoppard and featuring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall in the lead roles, Parade's End boasts quite a pedigree.
The five-part limited series roughly covers the same time period as Downton Abbey. Cumberbatch plays Christopher Tietjens, a nobleman unhappy with his hasty marriage, drawn into World War I and a love triangle. It's the role that launched Cumberbatch to stardom, and rightly so.
Parade's End is much darker and more complicated than most period dramas. However, Cumberbatch makes the frequently unlikeable Tietjens surprisingly sympathetic. For fans of Julian Fellowes' work which also includes the extremely fun and Oscar-nominated Gosford Park , there's Belgravia. The author's new series airing on EPIX is based on his own novel. It gets its name from one of the most affluent areas of London and follows the lives of several of the most affluent families and their servants who relocate there after its establishment in the s.
Like both Downton Abbey and Bridgerton , Belgravia involves grand balls, parents scheming to marry off their daughters and a plot about a secret love child. Unlike those series, a second season is yet to be announced, but Belgravia also hasn't been canceled.
Considering the series was popular and well-received, the future exploits of the Trenchard and Bellasis families are still on the table. Also set in Belgravia, London, Upstairs, Downstairs ran for five seasons in the UK during the s and was rebooted in Phoebe Dynevor as Daphne was the other breakout star.
She is the daughter of Coronation Street legend Sally Dynevor, who has played Sally in the soap opera for four decades, fact fans. Word of warning, the series quickly grows far racier with its bedroom antics than we ever saw with the Crawleys and co. The classic s UK series was a huge hit both at home and in the US. The series formula of master and servant tales told in tandem was undoubtedly the inspiration for Downton.
Spanning three decades from the early s, it follows the Bellamys and their servants through the first world war and beyond, as the residents of the house are forced to adapt to a rapidly changing world.
The show was co-created by actress Jean Marsh, who won an Emmy for her role as Sarah the parlourmaid - just one of a cabinet full of gongs the show grabbed on both sides of the Atlantic. He puts his plan into action to build the biggest and best department store in the world.
But as well as his struggle to make the store a success, Harry has to settle his family into London life. Produced three years after Downtown first became a smash hit, the series was undoubtedly designed with Abbey fans in mind. Glorious sets and period attention-to-detail make it a real feast for the eyes.
Set in s India after independence, the drama follows the efforts of Rupa Mehra Mahira Kakkar to arrange the marriage of her free-spirited university student daughter, Lata Mehra Tanya Maniktala , to a "suitable boy". But guess what? Yes, it turns out Lata has very different ideas to her mum. The stunning drama was filmed on location in India, and was lauded for being a major BBC TV drama featuring an entirely non-white cast.
The family saga was a ratings smash and set the standard for period dramas since.
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