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North & South

2004 · 1 season

A slow, smouldering Victorian romance where pride and principle collide against smoky mill-town hardship, rewarding patience with quietly devastating emotional payoffs.

Created by: Sandy Welch, Elizabeth Gaskell
Genres: Drama
Starring: Richard Armitage, Daniela Denby-Ashe, Sinéad Cusack

Tagline: A passionate tale of love across the social divide
Overview: Margaret Hale is a southerner from a country vicarage newly settled in the industrial northern town of Milton. In the shock of her move, she misjudges charismatic cotton mill-owner John Thornton, whose strength of purpose and passion are a match for her own pride and willfulness. When the workers of Milton call a strike, Margaret takes their side, and the two are brought into deeper conflict. As events spiral out of control, Margaret - to her surprise - begins to fall in love with Thornton...

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Created by: Sandy Welch, Elizabeth Gaskell
Genres: Drama
Starring: Richard Armitage, Daniela Denby-Ashe, Sinéad Cusack

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Tone: romanticstrength 3 of 3
earneststrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: class
love
identity
family
justice
Places: small town
countryside
home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	2
Realism	7
Romance	8
Tension	5
Darkness	4
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Created by: Sandy Welch, Elizabeth Gaskell
Written by: Sandy Welch
Starring: Richard Armitage, Daniela Denby-Ashe, Sinéad Cusack, Jo Joyner, Tim Pigott-Smith, Pauline Quirke, Kay Lyon, Brendan Coyle
Music: Martin Phipps
Cinematography: Peter Greenhalgh
Length: 1 seasons, 4 episodes, 60 min each
Network: BBC One
Languages: English

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