Ken Burns' nine episodes of photographs, letters and Shelby Foote; the documentary miniseries as form.
Five friends in London through the AIDS years of the 1980s; Russell T Davies.
Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell by candlelight; Hilary Mantel on the BBC.
Five episodes of the 1986 disaster and the lies around it; the highest-rated series on IMDb.
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