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Colin Firth in a wet shirt; the BBC Austen that defined the genre.

Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews and a teddy bear at Oxford and Castle Howard; eleven hours of Waugh.

A 13-year-old arrested for murder, four episodes each in a single take; the British series of 2025.

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.

Connell and Marianne from Sligo to Trinity College; Sally Rooney's novel in twelve half-hours.

Twelve episodes of John Cleese running a Torquay hotel badly; "don't mention the war".

Rowan Atkinson through four eras of English history; the last scene of Goes Forth.