Five episodes of the 1986 disaster and the lies around it; the highest-rated series on IMDb.
Ken Burns' nine episodes of photographs, letters and Shelby Foote; the documentary miniseries as form.
Elizabeth II from 1947 to 2005, with the cast replaced every two seasons.
Rowan Atkinson through four eras of English history; the last scene of Goes Forth.
Derek Jacobi as the stammering emperor and Sian Phillips as Livia; the BBC's 1976 Rome.
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.
An English pilot shipwrecked in 1600 Japan and Lord Toranaga; the Emmy record-breaker.
Two legionaries through the fall of the Republic; HBO and the BBC's expensive Caesar.
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