Shows Like Downton Abbey

Upstairs Downstairs

The original blueprint Downton Abbey was built on — a wealthy London family and their servants navigate three decades of social change at 165 Eaton Place. If you love Downton's structure, this is where it started.

This one's ended — five series, complete.

The Forsyte Saga

Three generations of an upper-middle-class family navigate love, betrayal, and inheritance from the Victorian era into the 1920s — the same epic, multi-generational scope as Downton, based on John Galsworthy's novels.

Cranford

A small English market town navigates the arrival of the railway and the changing times — a stellar ensemble cast (Judi Dench among them) brings the same richly detailed community drama Downton fans love.

Victoria

Jenna Coleman stars as the young Queen Victoria navigating power, marriage, and a court full of intrigue — lavish, romantic, and every bit as invested in the tension between duty and desire as Downton was.

North and South

A genteel Southern woman relocates to a harsh Northern mill town and clashes with a self-made industrialist — the same collision of class and romance, in a story that fans regularly rank alongside Downton for its emotional pull.

This one's a complete miniseries — four episodes.

Bleak House

A sprawling Dickens adaptation following the many lives entangled in a decades-long legal case — an enormous ensemble cast (Gillian Anderson, Charles Dance) and the same appetite for social commentary wrapped in gorgeous period detail.

This one's a complete miniseries.