- The white princess, directors, Alex Kalymnios, Jamie Payne ; writer, Emma Frost ; producers, Jamie Pyne, Lachlan Mackinnon
- Dynasties, a BBC Studios Natural History Unit production ; co-produced with BBC America, Tencent Penguin Pictures, France Télévisions and CCTV9 ; series producer, Rupert Barrington ; producers, Rosie Thomas, Miles Barton, Simon Blakeney, Nick Lyon
- Cranford, 2 Entertain ; BBC ; WGBH Boston in association with Chestermead ; produced by Sue Birtwistle ; created by Sue Birtwistle and Susie Conklin ; written by Heidi Thomas ; directed by Simon Curtis, Steve Hudson
- America, the story of us, produced by Nutopia for History
- Sense & sensibility, a BBC/WGBH Boston co-production ; written by Andrew Davies ; directed by John Alexander ; produced by Anne Pivcevic
- True detective, HBO Entertainment presents ; created by Nic Pizzolatto, The complete second season
- Dead still, produced by Deadpan Pictures ; created and written by John Morton ; producer, Suzanne McAuley ; directors, Imogen Murphy, Craig David Wallace, [Season 1]
- Cranford, return to Cranford, a BBC Drama/WGBH production in association with Chestermead Ltd. ; produced by Sue Birtwistle ; written by Heidi Thomas ; directed by Simon Curtis
- The game, written and created by Toby Whithouse ; directed by Niall MacCormick and Daniel O'Hara ; producer, Radford Neville
- The Jewel in the crown, produced by Granada Television in association with WGBH Boston ; produced by Christopher Morahan ; written by Ken Taylor ; directed by Christopher Morahan and Jim O'Brien
- John Adams, HBO Films presents a Playtone production ; produced by David Coatsworth, Steven Shareshian ; written by Kirk Ellis and Michelle Ashford ; directed by Tom Hooper
- Chernobyl, director, Craig Mazin
- Roots, History presents ; an A+E Studios production ; in association with Marc Toberoff Productions and the Wolper Organization ; produced by Alissa M. Kantrow ; teleplay by Lawrence Konner & Mark Rosenthal (nights 1 and 4), Alison McDonald (night 2), Charles Murray (night 3) ; directed by Phillip Noyce (night 1), Mario Van Peebles (night 2), Thomas Carter (night 3), Bruce Beresford (night 4)
- The book of Negroes, Clement Virgo, director
- Northanger abbey
- North and South, complete collection, produced by Paul Freeman ; directed by Richard T. Heffron ; written by John Jakes ; screenplay by Douglas Hayes ... [et al.], Books one, two & three
- Sherlock, Hartswood West for BBC Cymru Wales in co-production with Masterpiece ; created by Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat ; series producer, Sue Vertue ; executive producers, Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat, Beryl Vertue, Season three
- Christy, a new beginning, Trimark Home Video presents a Pax Television production ; producer, Deboragh Gabler ; teleplay writer, Brenda Lilly ; director, Don McBrearty
- Jane Austen's pride and prejudice
- Hemingway, a Florentine Films production ; directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward ; produced by Sarah Botstein, Lynn Novick, Ken Burns
- The crimson field, written by Sarah Phelps ; produced by Ann Tricklebank ; directed by David Evans, Richard Clark, Thaddeus O'Sullivan
- Roots, David L. Wolper Productions ; Warner Bros. Television ; produced by Stan Margulies ; written by William Blinn, M. Charles Cohen, Ernest Kinoy, James Lee ; directed by Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman, David Greene, Gilbert Moses
- Are you afraid of the dark?, Nickelodeon
- Sherlock, Hartswood Films production for BBC Wales in co-production with Masterpiece, Season two
- Les misérables, producer, Chris Carey ; written by Andrew Davies ; director, Tom Shankland
- Catherine the Great, HBO Miniseries presents ; in association with Sky ; a New Pictures/Origin Pictures production ; producer, Jules Hussey ; written by Nigel Williams ; directed by Philip Martin
- Roots, directed by Bruce Beresford [and three others] ; writers, Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal, Alison McDonald ; producers, Ann Kindberg, George Parra
- The Kennedys, a Muse Entertainment production in association with Asylum Entertainment ; producer, Jamie Paul Rock ; written by Stephen Kronish and Joel Surnow ; directed by Jon Cassar
- Dancing on the edge, Endgame Entertainment ; Playground Entertainment ; written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff
- The Pillars of the Earth, Tandem Communications, Muse Entertainment ; in association with Scott Free Films present ; produced by John Ryan ; written for television by John Pielmeier ; directed by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
- Jesus of Nazareth, the complete miniseries, director, Franco Zefirelli
- 37 days, A Hardy Pictures Production for BBC ; writer/producer, Mark Hayhurst ; producers, Lucy Bassnett-McGuire, Susan Horth ; director, Justin Hardy
- The red tent/, Sony Pictures Television/Spring Creek Productions/Lifetime ; executive producers Paula Weinstein, Nancy Bennett ; produced by Peter McAleese, Elizabeth Chandler ; Teleplay by Anne Meredith, Elizabeth Chandler ; directed by Roger Young
- The Kennedys, after Camelot
- The Diamond queen, BBC Productions ; written by Andrew Marr ; producer/director, Sally Norris
- The Men who built America, producers, Paul Cabana, Russel McCarrol ; director, Ruan Magan
- Houdini, directed by Uli Edel ; written by Nicholas Meyer ; produced by Gerald W. Abrams, Andras Hamori
- Sons of liberty, writer, Stephen David, David C. White, Kirk Ellis ; director, Kari Skogland
- The Civil War, American Documentaries, Inc., Florentine Films and Time-Life Video presents a film by Ken Burns ; producers, Ken Burns, Ric Burns ; writers, Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Geoffrey C. Ward ; director, Ken Burns
- Broken trail, American Movie Classics ; produced by Damian Ganczewski, Alan Geoffrion, Walter Hill, Chad Oakes, Ronald Parker ; written by Alan Geoffrion ; directed by Walter Hill
- The moonstone, directed by Lisa Mulcahy
- The offer
- Tut, Muse Entertainment Enterprises USA Inc. ; producer, Irene Litinsky, Guy J. Louthan ; written by Brad Bredeweg, Peter Paige, Michael Vickerman ; directed by David Von Ancken