If You Liked Downton Abbey, Watch These Next
Finished Downton Abbey (2010) and want more of the same? These 20 TV shows are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Downton Abbey, most of them are drama.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Upstairs, Downstairs(1971)
7.8DramaAlso drama
Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving social change, political upheaval, scandals, and the horrors of the First World War.
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2.Upstairs Downstairs(2010)
7.4DramaAlso drama
Set in 1936, the show takes viewers, old and new, back to the lavish world of Belgravia, London. A new set of occupants reside at 165 Eaton Place and viewers see how external and internal influences of the tumultuous pre-war period shape and mould the lives of this wealthy family and their servants.
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3.Little Dorrit(2008)
7.9DramaAlso drama
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers…
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4.The Hardacres(2024)
8.0DramaAlso drama
The sweeping rags to riches story of the Hardacres, a working-class family in 1890s Yorkshire who strike it rich and move from a grimy fish dock to a vast estate.
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5.Dickensian(2015)
7.4DramaAlso drama
Dickensian intertwines the realm of fictional characters in Charles Dickens’ novels—including Scrooge, Fagin and Miss Havisham—in half-hour episodes, as their lives intertwine in 19th century London. The Old Curiosity Shop sits next door to The Three Cripples Pub, while Fagin’s Den is hidden down a murky alley off a…
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6.North & South(2004)
8.1DramaAlso drama
Margaret Hale is a southerner from a country vicarage newly settled in the industrial northern town of Milton. In the shock of her move, she misjudges charismatic cotton mill-owner John Thornton, whose strength of purpose and passion are a match for her own pride and willfulness. When the workers of Milton call a…
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7.Offspring(2010)
6.9DramaAlso drama
An exuberant drama set in Melbourne's Fitzroy, centering on Nina Proudman and her struggle to deal with her fabulously messy family, her hunt for a decent love life and her tendency to overthink and fly off into fantasy.
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8.Tess of the D'Urbervilles(2008)
7.5DramaAlso drama
The story of Tess Durbeyfield, a low-born country girl whose family find they have noble connections.
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9.Poldark(2015)
7.8DramaAlso drama
Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins: his father dead, the family mine long since closed, his house…
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10.Parenthood(2010)
7.5DramaAlso drama
The trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family.
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11.Sanditon(2019)
7.6DramaAlso drama
The spirited and impulsive Charlotte Heywood moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a seaside resort.
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12.The Tenant of Wildfell Hall(1996)
7.5DramaAlso drama
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a 1996 serial adaptation of Anne Brontë's novel of the same name, produced by the BBC. A mysterious young woman arrives at Wildfell Hall, an old house of the Elizabethan era, with a young son. She is determined to lead an independent existence, but her new neighbours do not want to…
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13.Doctor Thorne(2016)
7.3DramaAlso drama
The story of the penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her rich aunt/cousins at Greshamsbury Park estate.
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14.Bleak House(2005)
8.0DramaAlso drama
The generous John Jarndyce, struggling with his own past, and his two young wards Richard and Ada, are all caught up, like Lady Dedlock, in the infamous case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce, which will make one of them rich beyond imagination if it can ever be brought to a conclusion. As Tulkinghorn digs deeper into Lady…
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15.Tyler Perry's The Oval(2019)
8.2DramaFamilyAlso drama
A seemingly perfect interracial first family becomes the White House's newest residents. But behind closed doors they unleash a torrent of lies, cheating and corruption.
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16.Burden of Truth(2018)
7.4DramaCrimeAlso drama
A big city lawyer returns to her hometown to take the case of a group of girls suffering from a mysterious illness.
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17.A Gentleman in Moscow(2024)
6.7DramaAlso drama
Count Alexander Rostov finds himself going from riches to rags following the Russian revolution. A Soviet tribunal banishes him to the attic room of an opulent hotel, where, oblivious to the world outside, he discovers the true value of friendship, family and love.
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18.London Kills(2019)
6.5DramaCrimeAlso drama
With a documentary style delivery, this drama tells the story of a team of top murder detectives with each episode featuring a different murder while also following a serialized story involving the lead detective’s missing wife.
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19.The War of the Worlds(2019)
6.6Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso drama
In Edwardian England, George and his partner Amy attempt to defy society and start a life together as they face the escalating terror of an alien invasion, fighting for their lives against an enemy beyond their comprehension.
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20.Sense and Sensibility(2008)
7.5DramaAlso drama
Sense and Sensibility is a 2008 British television drama, based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Andrew Davies, who said that the aim of the series was to make viewers forget Ang Lee's 1995 film version. As such, this series was more overtly sexual than previous Austen…
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