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The Gilded Age is again! The third season of the lauded HBO collection — which comes from the thoughts of Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes — debuts on June 22, 2025. In accordance with Variety, it is the “greatest season but.” Gushed TV critic Alison Herman, “The Gilded Age now not feels torn between ogling the previous and honoring its flaws. Three seasons in, it is on firmer footing than ever.”

The interval drama debuted in 2022 that includes an unimaginable forged led by Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Louisa Jacobson (who’s actress Meryl Streep’s youngest baby), Nathan Lane and extra — then returned for a second season that resulted in December 2023.

The drama kicks off in 1882 as penniless however pedigreed Marian Brook, having misplaced her father, strikes from Pennsylvania to New York Metropolis to stay along with her old-money aunts, Agnes van Rhijn and Ada Brook. Marian forges a friendship with Peggy Scott, a younger Black author looking for a recent begin after a tragedy, and shortly enters society the place she witnesses a social conflict between its established rulers — together with her formidable aunt — and her wildly rich new-money neighbors, railroad tycoon George Russell and his bold spouse, Bertha (pictured). In the meantime, the servants and employees endure dramas, highs and lows of their very own.

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The first trailer for the third “Downton Abbey” movie lastly landed on YouTube on June 2, 2025 — two months after it first debuted at CinemaCon. It reveals Girl Mary (Michelle Dockery) rising in society — “You may be a sensation,” Girl Edith (Laura Carmichael) gushes to her sister as she tries on a surprising crimson robe — and in addition depicts Lord Grantham (Hugh Bonneville) and the relaxation of the Crawley clan taking in the 1930 Royal Ascot races.

“The place we’ll at all times keep in mind. The household we’ll always remember. Every part has led to this. It is time to say goodbye,” teases the trailer, which ends with Lord Grantham seemingly doing simply that, kissing the Crawleys’ titular nation property and elevating questions on what is going to turn out to be of it.

Focus Options additionally launched a fascinating teaser poster to advertise the third movie in the franchise, “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale,” which opens in theaters on September 12, 2025. (That is Dockery as Girl Mary in the spectacular crimson open-back costume.)

Set in the early 1900s, Downton Abbey tells the story of England’s aristocratic Crawley household and the servants who work on their sprawling property. Starring Dockery, Carmichael, Bonneville and extra, the drama (which initially wrapped up its TV tenure in 2016) grew to become the hottest collection ever to air on PBS, and with good cause — the overflowing magnificence was tempered with tawdry romance, betrayals, blackmail and even homicide. The present was rebooted for the huge display screen in September 2019 with a Downton Abbey movie — it opened at No. 1! — that chronicled the king and queen’s go to to the household’s property. A well-received second film, Downton Abbey: A New Period, hit theaters in 2022.

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In mid-Might 2025, Netflix launched a sneak peek at the upcoming fourth season of Bridgerton, which is able to observe Benedict Bridgerton’s love affair with Sophie Baek. The new teaser depicts the actual second Benedict (Luke Thompson) falls in love at first sight with “The Girl in Silver” (Yerin Ha) at a masquerade ball hosted by his mom, Girl Violet Bridgerton. However followers of the beloved drama should wait a protracted (VERY lengthy) time to see how precisely the free-spirited artist falls for the thriller lady: Netflix revealed new episodes of Bridgerton will not debut till 2026, disappointing the fandom.

The Shondaland collection primarily based on creator Julia Quinn’s novels follows the exploits of the rich, giant and aristocratic Bridgerton household as they navigate love, gossip and scandal on the marriage market in Regency-era London. Inside a month of its preliminary launch in late 2020, it had turn out to be the streaming service’s greatest present ever: Netflix revealed that it had been watched by 82 million individuals — 41% of its international viewers of 200 million — in its first 28 days on-line.

The third season of the standard interval drama debuted in Might 2024 and targeted on the friends-to-lovers story of “Polin,” the portmanteau for Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton).

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“Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story” was launched on Netflix in 2023 as a companion collection to “Bridgerton.” The six-episode prequel spinoff tells the backstory of Queen Charlotte (performed by India Amarteifio) and King George III (performed by Corey Mylchreest), revealing how they got here to be married and the way they navigated heartbreaking challenges as younger royals.

The attractive costume drama was a success with critics and viewers alike and scored a number of Emmy nominations (profitable for make-up and coiffure design). It was so standard, it debuted at No. 1 on the streamer in 91 international locations together with the United States.

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In the quirky, playful and completely gorgeous 2024 Apple TV+ interval comedy-drama collection “Palm Royale,” Kristen Wiig performs Maxine Simmons, a former pageant queen who’s obsessive about breaking into excessive society after shifting to Palm Seashore, Florida, along with her good-looking husband Douglas, an airline pilot with a historical past in the boozy, gossip-soaked city.
The 1969-set collection is chock-full of gorgeous costumes and units in addition to A-list expertise — from Carol Burnett, Allison Janney and Leslie Bibb as society snobs to Ricky Martin as a related nation membership server to Laura Dern as a sensible, savvy feminist.
The present could be very loosely primarily based on the 2018 novel “Mr. & Mrs. American Pie” by Juliet McDaniel.

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One other providing from “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes is “Belgravia.” The drama, which debuted in the States on EPIX in 2020, is predicated on his 2016 novel of the similar identify. The six-episode collection focuses on the scandal-plagued Trenchards, a household newly ascended to the aristocracy, as they navigate nineteenth century London excessive society in the rich neighborhood of Belgravia.

A second season titled “Belgravia: The Subsequent Chapter” — which takes place 25 years later and follows the scandals of the descendants of characters from the first season — debuted on MGM+ in 2024.

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The nine-episode miniseries “Masters of the Air” — a companion to 2001’s “Band of Brothers” and 2010’s “The Pacific” — debuted on Apple TV+ in January 2024 to wonderful evaluations.
The World Warfare II drama — which, like its predecessors, was produced by Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Matt Goetzman — follows a bunch of airmen who threat their lives with the a centesimal Bomb Group of the United States Air Forces. It is primarily based on the 2007 guide “Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air Warfare Towards Nazi Germany” by Donald L. Miller.
Academy Award-nominated “Elvis” actor Austin Butler — who performs Main Gale “Buck” Cleven, a pilot, officer and chief amongst the males — stars alongside a who’s who of rising younger actors together with Callum Turner, Barry Keoghan and Anthony Boyle.

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The ten-part 2001 miniseries “Band of Brothers” — which facilities round the U.S. Military a hundred and first Airborne Division throughout WWII — featured an unimaginable forged together with Damian Lewis and David Schwimmer (pictured), Michael Fassbender, Ron Livingston, Donnie Wahlberg and Neal McDonough.

The HBO undertaking, which was produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg and served as the first a trio of conflict tasks (that additionally embrace 2010’s “The Pacific” and 2024’s “Masters of the Air”) received six Emmys together with excellent miniseries and scored one other 13 nominations.

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Almost a decade after profitable Emmy gold with “Band of Brothers” and 14 years earlier than third installment “Masters of the Air” debuted, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg govt produced one other conflict miniseries, 2010’s “The Pacific,” which facilities round a bunch of Marines in the Pacific Theater throughout World Warfare II. James Badge Dale headlined the lauded 10-part HBO undertaking, which received eight Emmys (together with greatest miniseries) and scored one other 16 Emmy nominations.

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The interval drama “The New Look” — which is known as after Christian Dior’s famed late-Nineteen Forties design aesthetic — tells the story of Dior and fellow designer Coco Chanel set towards the backdrop of World Warfare II as they navigate the horrors of Nazi occupation of France and launch fashionable style.
The ten-episode Apple TV+ collection, which was filmed in Paris, is impressed by true occasions and in addition options storylines involving some of their contemporaries, associates and rivals together with Pierre Balmain, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Lucien Lelong and extra. Ben Mendelsohn performs Dior; John Malkovich is his boss, French couturier Lelong (pictured with Mendelsohn); Juliette Binoche takes on Chanel; Maisie Williams is Dior’s sister, a fighter in the French resistance who results in a Nazi work camp; and Glenn Shut is Carmel Snow, the legendary editor-in-chief of iconic style journal Harper’s Bazaar.

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“The Buccaneers” facilities round a bunch of American débutantes — performed by Alisha Boe, Josie Totah, Kristine Frøseth, Aubri Ibrag and Imogen Waterhouse — on the lookout for love in London, the place their fashionable sensibilities are at odds with the traditions of English excessive society in the 1870s. The primary season of the Apple TV+ drama — which is predicated on Edith Wharton’s unfinished novel of the similar identify, revealed posthumously in 1938 — debuted in late 2023. A second season is presently in the works. (Season 1 earned first rate evaluations from critics however was a HUGE hit with followers, scoring a 94% recent score from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes.)

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The PBS Masterpiece collection “Miss Scarlet & the Duke” debuted in 2021. Kate Phillips — you understand her from different killer interval reveals like “Peaky Blinders” and “The Crown” — stars as Eliza Scarlet, the sensible, plucky daughter of a famend London personal detective who turns up lifeless. With the reluctant and occasional assist of household good friend and Scotland Yard detective William Wellington (aka the Duke, performed by Stuart Martin), with whom she shares a crackling romantic chemistry — Eliza takes over the household sleuthing enterprise and takes on the challenges of being the solely feminine investigator in Victorian London.
After season 4 aired in the States in 2024, PBS introduced that the collection had been picked up for a fifth season — however that the Duke would not be returning. The collection was renamed merely “Miss Scarlet.”

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The PBS “Masterpiece” collection “All Creatures Nice and Small” debuted in America in 2021. The seven-episode first season stars TV newcomer Nicholas Ralph as veterinarian James Herriot and is, like the authentic British collection of the similar identify that aired in the Seventies, primarily based on real-life veterinary surgeon James Alfred Wight’s books written underneath his James Herriot pen identify. It fantastically chronicles James’s adventures as an animal physician on the farms and in the properties of England’s Yorkshire residents in the Thirties.

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“Outlander” — the STARZ collection primarily based on Diana Gabaldon’s bestselling guide collection — kicks off as English army nurse-turned-surgeon Claire Randall (performed by Caitriona Balfe) mysteriously disappears from her life and husband in post-World Warfare II 1946 upon touching historical standing stones, solely to reappear in Scotland in 1743. Whereas there, Claire is pressured to marry warrior Jamie Fraser (performed by Sam Heughan) for cover, however finally ends up falling in love with him as they go on to endure unspeakable tragedies together with inspiring triumphs. Thus far, this action-packed romantic fantasy-historical drama, which is now set in pre-Revolutionary Warfare America following just a few extra time-traveling adventures, has left us with our knickers in a critical twist. Season 7 debuted in 2023 — and an eighth and remaining season is in the works.

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Alexander Dreymon stars as Uhtred of Bebbanburg on the BBC America and Netflix historic drama “The Final Kingdom.” Uhtred was born into Saxon the Aristocracy however raised by the Danish invaders who conquered his homeland. Though courageous and simply, Uhtred struggles together with his allegiances and together with his want to reclaim the kingdom that was as soon as his. A fifth and remaining season debuted in 2022 and a film wrapping issues up dropped in 2023.

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Thought of one of the sexiest dramas so far, “Mad Males” starring Jon Hamm as advert govt Don Draper was a martini-drenched take a look at the world of promoting in New York throughout the Nineteen Sixties. The Emmy-winning present resulted in 2015 after seven scrumptious seasons.

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The historic drama “Poldark” begins simply after the American Revolutionary Warfare and follows British Military captain Ross Poldark (performed by Aidan Turner) as he returns dwelling to his land and mines in Cornwall, England, to search out his fiancée engaged to a different man. As he builds a brand new life, he additionally finds a brand new love and, sadly, new battles to struggle and recent heartbreak to endure. The fifth and remaining season aired on PBS in 2019.

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Typically the hype is well-deserved and that is completely the case with the Netflix authentic collection “Stranger Issues,” which stars a fresh-faced forged of baby actors together with (from left) Gaten Matarazzo, Finn Wolfhard and Caleb McLaughlin. The premise of this dramatic thriller is difficult, nevertheless it includes a terrifying land known as The Upside Down, the Eighties, kids who’ve disappeared and a telekinetic little woman named Eleven (performed by the sensible Millie Bobby Brown). Phrase of warning — do not watch this present alone. Or with the lights out. The present’s fourth season dropped in 2022 and a fifth and remaining season is on the approach.

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Pedro Pascal (left) and Boyd Holbrook (proper) starred on the Netflix authentic collection “Narcos” as two drug enforcement brokers despatched to Colombia to take down infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar. The primary three seasons of the biographical crime drama can be found on Netflix, as is the first season of “Narcos: Mexico” — a companion collection that charts the rise of the Guadalajara drug cartel in the Eighties and stars Diego Luna, amongst others. The third season of companion collection “Narcos: Mexico” was launched in 2021.

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Primarily based on the real-life political determine Enoch L. Johnson, “Boardwalk Empire” was a lush, award-winning HBO authentic collection about how “Nucky” (performed by Steve Buscemi, proper) got here to rule over Atlantic Metropolis, New Jersey, in the Twenties and Thirties by covertly working with different gangsters. The Prohibition-era collection ran from 2010 to 2014.

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Set in the 1700s, Netflix’s “Frontier” tells the story of Declan Harp (performed by Jason Momoa), an outlaw with huge plans to interrupt into the Canadian fur commerce enterprise, even when meaning crossing the firm that has unique management. Its third and remaining season debuted in 2018.

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Jonathan Rhys Meyers starred as King Henry VIII on the Showtime authentic collection “The Tudors,” which aired from 2007 to 2010. The present highlighted the wars and many ladies (together with Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn) in the life of this infamous British monarch. Primarily based on real-life occasions, the historic drama featured extra scandal than a modern-day cleaning soap opera. (Simply ask Henry Cavill, who performed the king’s duke bestie, Charles Brandon.)

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Celebrated creator Jane Austen died in 1817 earlier than she may end her remaining novel, which was set in a seaside city in England. “Satisfaction and Prejudice” and “Les Miserables” screenwriter Andrew Davies took what she had and ran with it in the 2020 PBS collection “Sanditon” — which concluded with season 3 in 2023. The fantastically costumed and acted love story follows Charlotte Heywood (Rose Williams, middle), the daughter of a rural landowner who finds herself drawn into the drama and pleasure surrounding the aristocratic inhabitants of an on-the-rise seashore vacation city the place she falls in love and suffers losses earlier than lastly getting her completely happy ending.

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Welcome to Madrid in the late Twenties, the setting for Netflix’s soapy, trendy and oh-so-binge-worthy Spanish interval drama “Cable Ladies,” which debuted on the streamer in 2017. The five-season collection follows 4 younger girls working as switchboard operators at Spain’s first telephone firm at a time when girls have been pushing for extra equality. As friendships between the girls deepen, so does the drama round them, leaving the “cable ladies” — performed by Blanca Suárez, Ana Fernández, Nadia de Santiago and Maggie Civantos — to navigate a litany of loves, lies and abuses whereas leaning on one another for assist. The style alone is price a peek.

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“Beecham Home” is a beautiful six-part drama from Gurinder Chadha (who wrote and directed “Bend It Like Beckham” and “Bride and Prejudice”) that debuted on PBS’s “Masterpiece” in 2020. Set in the late 1700s, the lush collection follows a principled and secretive British former soldier (the dashing Tom Bateman, who’s recognized to some for his appearing in “Homicide on the Orient Categorical” and “Vainness Honest” and to others as actress Daisy Ridley’s real-life husband) determined to maintain his household secure after shifting into a surprising mansion in Delhi, India. The drama — which has been favorably in comparison with “Downton Abbey” (and coincidentally co-stars Lesley Nicol, who performed prepare dinner Mrs. Patmore on the older PBS present) — follows his life because it intersects with all the gossip and intrigue swirling amongst the servants caring for his dwelling and at the close by palace. 

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One of the hottest reveals on Hulu was “Harlots.” Starring Samantha Morton as brothel madam Margaret Wells and Danny Sapani as her lover and enterprise companion William North (each pictured), the present kicked off with the antics of rival brothel house owners Margaret and Lydia Quigley (performed by Lesley Manville) in 18th century England as they battled for patrons and turf. Alongside the approach, there’s homicide, deceit and (of course) a complete lot of intercourse. Actors together with “Downton Abbey” alum Jessica Brown Findlay, Liv Tyler and Alfie Allen have additionally starred on the collection, which concluded after three seasons in 2019.

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The best factor about NBC’s “Timeless” was that it was type of a interval piece, but additionally a contemporary drama. The premise? A rogue unhealthy man has stolen one of two secret authorities time touring machines and is intent on destroying each main second in American historical past. To cease him, a ragtag crew performed by actors together with Matt Lanter (left), Malcolm Barrett (middle) and Abigail Spencer (proper) should observe the madman and attempt to catch him earlier than he completely modifications the previous. The collection was canceled after its first season however followers rallied collectively and acquired the present picked again up by the community for a second run. Nonetheless, it was then over for good after a two-part finale aired in late 2018.

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The 2016 miniseries reboot of “Roots” was a robust take a look at the legacy of slavery from the second of seize by way of the generations of members of the family that adopted. Michael Kirby starred as Kunta Kinte on this Historical past channel semi-biographical journey that was as uplifting because it was heart-wrenching.

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Norse mythology involves life on the Historical past channel’s 2013 drama “Vikings,” which starred Travis Fimmel as Ragnar Lothbrok — one of the biggest Viking warriors of the ninth century. A 20-episode sixth (and remaining) season debuted in 2019.

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On the 2022 Apple TV+ collection “The Essex Serpent,” Tom Hiddleston starred as a Victorian vicar drawn right into a charged relationship with Claire Danes’s beginner scientist who’s investigating experiences of a legendary serpent haunting the marshes of Essex, England. The restricted collection, which is predicated on Sarah Perry’s guide of the similar identify, ran for six episodes.

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In 2017, the fourth and remaining season of “Flip: Washington’s Spies” aired on AMC. It starred Jamie Bell as Abraham Woodhull (aka Samuel Culper), the chief of a band of spies known as the Culper Ring. This historic conflict drama, which was primarily based on real-life occasions, began in 1776 and adopted Abe and his associates as they labored collectively to spy for Common George Washington, serving to his struggle for American independence.

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One other drama loosely primarily based on precise historic figures is the CW collection “Reign,” which instructed the story of younger King Francis II of France (Toby Regbo, proper) and his younger bride, Queen Mary Stuart (Adelaide Kane, middle) in the mid-Sixteenth century. Stuffed with all the intrigue, drama and deceit of a royal court docket, the present managed to carry its personal for 4 robust seasons earlier than being canceled in 2017.

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Go away it to Netflix to remind us that “Marco Polo” is not only a enjoyable sport to play in the pool in the summer season, however the identify of an actual explorer. The present ran for 2 seasons beginning in 2014 and targeted on the time Marco (performed by Lorenzo Richelmy) spent in Mongolia in the court docket of the nice warrior Kublai Khan in the late thirteenth century.

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“The Get Down,” which debuted in 2016, barely made it previous its first season on Netflix, however we predict the collection, which starred Jaden Smith as Marcus “Dizzee” Kipling, deserves a nod. Set in the Bronx in the Seventies throughout the start of hip hop, the present (which was Oscar nominee Baz Luhrmann’s first TV present — and reportedly Netflix’s most expensive-to-produce undertaking ever because of a $120 finances for 12 episodes) did not simply function highly effective performances however some superb music too. Netflix wrapped issues up with a five-episode second half in 2017.

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“11.22.63” is the small-screen adaption of the Stephen King sci-fi historic thriller a few man’s journey again in time to cease the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The 2016 Hulu present starred James Franco as Jake Epping, a modern-day highschool English instructor who’s instantly charged with the process of altering historical past by strolling by way of a secret time portal into the previous.

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In 2019, HBO launched the third and remaining season of “The Deuce.” Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal as baby-faced prostitute and single mother Sweet, the collection, which additionally stars James Franco as twins Vincent and Frankie Martino, dives deep into the world of intercourse trafficking in New York throughout the ’70s and ’80s.