Set in London between 1900 and 1925, the story follows Louisa Leyton/Trotter, the eponymous "Duchess", who works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St. James's.
Robin Ellis returns as Ross Poldark in this miniseries, inspired by Winston Graham's novels, which picks up where the popular Poldark series left off. Set in Cornwall in the 18th century, Poldark 2 finds Poldark and Demelza (Angharad Rees) married and expecting a child, while his sister, Elizabeth (Jill Townsend), is unhappily married to George (Ralph Bates). The Poldarks' family business, a copper mine, is starting to go bust, and Ross must find a way to turn the business around before it's too late. Poldark 2 was originally produced for British television, where it first aired in 1977.
Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green. Based on true stories and set in a Union hospital in the occupied Confederate city of Alexandria, viewers are taken beyond the battlefield and into the lives of Americans on the Civil War home front as they face the unprecedented challenges of one of the most turbulent times in our nation's history.
In a heroic journey of epic proportions, English everyman Charlie McFell (Lloyd Owen) wrestles with his demons -- including a coldhearted wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones), economic hardship, the horror of the world's first Great War and a painful secret he'd rather forget. But Charlie eventually comes out on top in this emotional, made-for-television miniseries based on Catherine Cookson's best-selling novel.
Following July, an indomitable, young slave who works on a sugarcane plantation with her detestable mistress, Caroline Mortimer. Their lives change with the arrival of the charming new overseer, Robert Goodwin who sets out to improve the plantation for both the slaves and the mistress.