Cranford

Series Similar to Cranford

If you enjoyed Cranford, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Lark Rise to Candleford

   2008 · Drama · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, also on BBC One.

   Adaptation of Flora Thompson's memoir of her Oxfordshire childhood, set in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, at the end of the 19th Century.

2. Upstairs Downstairs

   2010 · Drama · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, also on BBC One.

   Revival of the iconic '70s series. Life in a London townhouse in the late 1930s, where the fates of the servants 'downstairs' and their masters 'upstairs' are intimately linked.

3. State of Play

   2003 · Drama · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8), also on BBC One.

   The serial begins with the murder of a young man, in what appears to be a drug-related killing, and the apparently coincidental death of Sonia Baker, the young researcher for MP Stephen Collins (Morrissey). As the deaths are investigated by journalist Cal McCaffrey of The Herald (Simm) and his colleagues (including Kelly Macdonald as Della Smith and Bill Nighy as editor Cameron Foster) it appears that not only were the deaths connected, but that a conspiracy links them with oil industry-backed corruption of high-ranking British government ministers.

4. Doctor Thorne

   2016 · Drama · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

   Doctor Thorne tells the story of the penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her rich aunt/cousins at Greshamsbury Park estate.

5. The Outcast

   2015 · Drama · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   Post-war coming-of-age drama based on the novel by Sadie Jones.

6. Broken

   2017 · Drama · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   Drama series about a well-respected Catholic priest presiding over a large parish on the outskirts of a major city in northern England.

7. The Deep

   2010 · Drama · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   In the state-of-the-art research submarine Orpheus, Captain Frances Kelly leads a team of scientists deep below the Arctic ice. They are following the path of an earlier, disastrous expedition; searching the final frontiers of Earth for unknown and remarkable life forms, attempting to find the solution to the world's escalating energy crisis.Enduring crushing pressure, boiling vent gases, freezing temperatures and total darkness, the Orpheus arrives at the Lomonosov Ridge, an enormous area of sea bed which is disputed territory, currently under the United Nations' jurisdiction. Nobody comes here. But there is something else out here: something huge and bewildering. And, as the Orpheus crew struggle for survival and attempt to unravel the mystery, they uncover secrets more terrifying than they ever could have imagined…

8. Poldark

   2015 · Drama, Romance · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.3), also on BBC One.

   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 wrecked and his sweetheart pledged to marry his cousin. But Ross finds that hope and love can be found when you are least expecting it in the wild but beautiful Cornish landscape.

9. Sense and Sensibility

   2008 · Drama, Romance · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   Widow Dashwood and her three unmarried daughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, inherit only a tiny allowance. So they move out of their grand Sussex home to a more modest cottage in Devonshire. There, the prevailing ambition is to find suitable husbands for the girls. With help from wealthy neighbor Sir John Middleton, suitors for Elinor and Marianne are soon found, but not landed. They include dashing Willoughby, future vicar Edward Ferrars and retired colonial gentleman Colonel Brandon.

10. Pride and Prejudice

    1995 · Drama, Romance · ended92% match

    Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8), also on BBC One.

    Re-live the romance and drama of Andrew Davies' lavish adaptation, starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.