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The story returns to the world of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and involves its characters in a new tale of murder and emotional mayhem.

Set in 1969 in Kings Cross, Love Child will follow characters caught in the crossfire as they live, work and play at the very centre of the cultural and sexual revolution. Their lives intersect between the Haven, a maternity hospital and home for unwed mothers, and the wild streets of Darlinghurst beyond the hospital walls.

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman was a show that focused on Dr. Mike, a woman doctor in a time when that was unheard of. It started with her journey to Colorado Springs to be the town's physician after her father's death in 1868.

A Spanish drama television series set in an early 20th century aristocratic hotel during the reign of King Alfonso XIII and is centered on the mysteries that involve the owner family and the hotel servants.

This is a drama series which follows the life and turbulent times of an English village over the past century, as seen through the eyes of one resident as he lives from childhood to old age.

Paris, November 1897. In just a few minutes, a devastating fire destroys the Bazar de la Charité, a building that houses a very popular charity event, leaving more than 130 dead, mainly high society women and their entourages. Three women - Adrienne de Lenverpre, Alice de Jeansin and Rose Rivière, her maid - see their destinies turned upside down. Identity theft, forbidden love, radical life change, betrayal, emancipation: Le Bazar de la Charité plunges us into Parisian society at the end of the 19th century, as we follow the romantic destiny of its three heroines.

By the North Sea The Andersen small seaside hotel opens its doors for the season 1928. The host couple Julius and Molly Andersen takes a warm welcome regulars from Copenhagen arriving laden with luggage to four weeks of vacation. There's reunion and high spirits, but holiday idyll is not without cracks.

The Löwander family operate one of the most prestigious restaurants in Stockholm, exploring what becomes of the establishment as a new era dawns.

Paris, France, 1899. The corpse of an unknown woman is found in the river Seine. The investigation will push a young ambitious inspector to discover a heavy state secret.

This series follows a team of doctors, nurses, and female volunteers working in a front-line tented field hospital during the First World War. It's a daily battle to keep the soldiers well enough to fight. Low staff numbers cause the hospital to become more and more dependent upon its female volunteers, though some people see these women as more of a threat than anything else.

This historical five-part show based on three of Elizabeth Gaskell's novellas is brought to the BBC with an all-star cast including Judi Dench. The story follows the lives and loves of the inhabitants of the northern market town over a year in the mid 1800s.

A princess secretly assumes her dead twin brother's identity and the throne, having to hide her true self from the people around her. But when a charming teacher makes his way into her life and her heart, she realizes this royal secret-her identity and affection-can't be kept under wraps for long.

Land Girls follows the lives and loves of a group of girls living away from home as they attempt to do their bit for Britain in the Women's Land Army during the second world war.

My Mother and Other Strangers follows the fortunes of a rural family, the Coynes, and their neighbours in the village of Moybeg on the shores of Lough Neagh in County Tyrone, as they struggle to maintain a normal life after a huge USAAF airfield with 4,000 service men and women - complete with a handsome and charming liaison officer, Captain Dreyfuss - lands smack-dab in the middle of their parish in 1943.

The series marks the hundredth anniversary of the world's most famous maritime disaster, the sinking of the Titanic, that happened in April 1912. The series follows an entire society as the ship travels towards the iceberg.

Based in Shinmiyangyo, or the U.S. expedition to Korea in the late 19th century, Mr. Sunshine tells the story of a Korean boy born into a family of a house servant running away to board an American warship, later to return to his homeland as a U.S. marine officer. He ironically falls in love with an aristocrat's daughter and discovers the dark scheme to colonize the country that he once ran away from.

A period drama that takes viewers back to the 1970s for a look at suburban households testing the murky waters of sexual revolution following swingers throughout open marriages, "key parties" and other swingers extravaganzas.

Martin Clunes will star as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the writer of 'Sherlock' in a new adaptation of the book 'Arthur and Barnes'.

In 1960s Rome, a free-spirited young woman who's grown up at her family's circus unexpectedly discovers she belongs to two very different worlds.

The loves that tear apart and bring together generations of an upper-middle class British family from 1906-1921. Based on the novels by John Galsworthy.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali brings his majestic signature flair to stories of love and betrayal in the lives of courtesans in pre-independence India.

Period drama series about the brooding rivalry between former soldier Ross Poldark and local industrialist George Warleggan, and the two women in their lives. Based on the books by Winston Graham.

An adaptation of Dickens's great story. Three young orphans - Esther, Richard and Ada - are sent to live at Bleak House, where they receive a friendly welcome from their rich guardian John Jarndyce. But all is not as it seems at Bleak House, and nothing but bad luck follows those who stay there.

This BBC four-part adaptation of Michel Faber's international best-selling novel tells the tale of Victorian London's underground society.

A former samurai, a yakuza bodyguard, a devious spy, and a geisha assassin try to find their place in the rapidly evolving Meiji-era while escaping the sins of their pasts.