- 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
- 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
- True detective, an HBO original series, The complete third season
- ANZAC girls, production, Screentime, All3Media ; produced by Felicity Packard and Lisa Scott ; written by Felicity Packard and Niki Aken ; directed by Ken Cameron and Ian Watson
- Anne of Green Gables, a Kevin Sullivan production ; produced by Kevin Sullivan [and] Ian McDougall ; directed by Kevin Sullivan
- The blue planet, seas of life : ocean world/frozen seas, BBC Video ; producer, Alastair Fothergill, part 1
- Wolf Hall, a Playground Entertainment and Company Pictures production for BBC and Masterpiece in association with BBC Worldwide, Altus Media, and Prescience ; producer Mark Pybus ; adapted for television by Peter Straughan ; directed by Peter Kosminsky
- The honorable woman, written, produced and directed by Hugo Blick
- Emma, by Jane Austen ; dramatised by Denis Constanduros ; producer, Martin Lisemore ; directed by John Glenister ; BBC
- Northanger Abbey, a co-production of Granada Television Ltd. and WGBH Boston ; ITV Productions ; screenplay by Andrew Davies ; co-producers James Flynn and Morgan O'Sullivan ; produced by Keith Thompson ; directed by Jon Jones
- Dark angel, produced by Centurion Productions Limited with the support of the Yorkshire Content Fund, a World Production in association with Screen Yorkshire for ITV ; screenplay by Gwyneth Hughes ; director, Brian Percival ; producer, Jake Lushington
- The night of, written by Steven Zaillian and Richard Price
- The night manager, The Ink Factory in association with Demarest Films and Character 7 ; written by David Farr
- Little Dorrit, 2 Entertain ; British Broadcasting Corporation ; a BBC Drama/WGBH co-production ; produced by Lisa Osborne ; adapted by Andrew Davies ; directed by Dearbhla Walsh, Adam Smith, Diarmuid Lawrence
- Twin Peaks, Showtime presents ; a Rancho Rosa partnership production ; executive producers, Mark Frost, David Lynch ; executive producer, Sabrina S. Sutherland ; created by Mark Frost & David Lynch ; written by Mark Frost & David Lynch ; directed by David Lynch, a limited event series
- This emotional life :, in search of ourselves...and happiness, a co-production of the NOVA/WGBH Science Unit and Vulcan Productions, Inc. ; a film by Kunhardt McGee Productions
- The hollow crown, by William Shakespeare ; producer, Rupert Ryle-Hodges ; a Neal Street Productions co-production with NBCUniversal and WNET Thirteen for BBC
- The hot zone, National Geographic ; producers, James V. Hart, Brian Peterson, Kelly Souders
- John Steinbeck's East of Eden, CBS Operations, Inc. ; Barney Rosenzweig Productions ; Mace Neufeld Productions ; Viacom Productions ; produced by Barney Rosenzweig ; written by Richard Shapiro ; directed by Harvey Hart
- Decline and fall, produced by Matthew Bird ; written by James Wood ; directed by Guillem Morales
- Million dollar American princesses, the complete series, Produced by Finestripe Productions and Smithsonian Networks ; series producer and director, Michael Burke ; for Smithsonian Channel
- Hatfields & McCoys, History & Thinkfactory Media present ; a Leslie Greif production ; producers, Kevin Costner, Darrell Fetty, & Herb Nanas ; screenplay by Ted Mann (Nights 1-3) and Ronald Parker (Nights 2-3) ; directed by Kevin Reynolds
- Hitler, the rise of evil, Alliance Atlantis in association with In-Motion AG in association with The GMPF presents ; producer John Ryan ; written by John Pielmeier and G. Ross Parker ; directed by Christian Duguay
- Mrs. Wilson, Snowed-In Productions for BBC ; co-produced with Masterpiece ; in association with All 3 Media International ; produced by Jackie Larkin ; written by Anna Symon ; directed by Richard Laxton
- War & peace, the complete miniseries, director, Tom Harper
- Brideshead revisited, Acorn Media ; directed by Michael Lindsay Hogg, Granada Limited
- I, Claudius, by Jack Pulman ; a BBC Television production, in association with London Films ; producer, Martin Lisemore ; directed by Herbert Wise
- Little women, a Playground production for BBC and Masterpiece ; producer, Susie Liggat, Colin Callender, Sophie Gardiner ; screenwriter, Heidi Thomas ; director, Vanessa Caswill
- Gilmore girls, a year in the life, a Warner Bros. Television production ; a Netflix original series ; Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions ; created by Amy Sherman-Palladino ; produced by Dylan K. Massin ; producer, Helen Pai ; written and directed by Amy Sherman-Palladino, Daniel Palladino
- The miniaturist, writer, John Brownlow ; producer, Gethin Scourfield ; director, Guillem Morales
- Mildred Pierce, HBO Miniseries presents in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; a Killer Films/John Wells production ; a film by Todd Haynes ; teleplay by Todd Haynes & Jon Raymond ; directed by Todd Haynes
- The Pacific, HBO miniseries presents ; a Playtone and Dreamworks production ; Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Gary Goetzman, executive producers ; written by Bruce C McKenna ... [et al.] ; directed by Tim Van Patten ... [et al.]
- 11.22.63, Carpenter B ; Bad Robot ; distributed by Warner Bros. Television ; producers, Joseph Boccia, James Franco ; developed by Bridget Carpenter
- Ancient Egyptians, Wall to Wall ; written and produced by Ben Goold ; director, Tony Mitchell
- The Bible, the epic miniseries
- Catch-22, Hulu presents a Hulu original series ; a Paramount Television/Anonymous Content production ; directed by Grant Heslov, Ellen Kuras, George Clooney ; teleplay by Luke Davies & David Michôd ; developed by Luke Davies & David Michôd ; produced by Barbara A. Hall, Ellen Kuras
- World without end, Tandem Communications and Take 5 Productions in association with Scott Free Films and Sat. 1 ; producer, Howard Ellis ; written by John Pielmeier ; directed by Michael Caton-Jones
- The woman in white, writer, Fiona Seres ; producer, Sarah Curtis ; director, Carl Tibbets
- Defending Jacob, directed by Morten Tyldum
- The plot against America, the complete series, [presented by] Home Box Office
- Howards End, director, Hettie MacDonald ; producer, Laura Hastings-Smith ; writer, Kenenth Lonergan
- The loudest voice, Showtime presents ; a Blumhouse Television/Showtime production ; developed by Tom McCarthy and Alex Metcalf ; producers, Tamara Isaac, Agatha Barnes
- The great fire, directed by Jon Jones ; produced by Gina Cronk
- Reconstruction, America after the Civil War, a production of McGee Media, Inkwell Films and WETA Washington, DC ; producer/directors, Stacey Holman, Rob Rapley, Cyndee Readdean ; written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- Agatha Christie's The witness for the prosecution, written by Sarah Phelps ; produced by Colin Wratten ; directed by Julian Jarrold ; Mammoth Screen and Agatha Christie Productions for BBC ; in association with A+E Television Networks and Acorn Media Enterprises
- 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
- Fosse/Verdon, FX presents ; developed for television by Steven Levenson & Thomas Kail
- Wives and daughters, a BBC/WGBH Boston co-production ; produced by Sue Birtwistle ; adapted by Andrew Davies ; directed by Nicholas Renton
- The winds of war, Paramount Television ; producer, Dan Curtis ; writer, Herman Wouk ; directed by Dan Curtis