Television shows based on British novels

Watership Down

Series Age rating: 11 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Fleeing their doomed warren, a group of rabbits struggle to find and defend a new home.

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Agatha Raisin

Series Age rating: 8 Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Burnt out on office politics, Agatha Raisin retires early to a picturesque village in the Cotswolds and soon finds a second career as an amateur detective investigating mischief, mayhem, and murder in...

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Daniel Deronda

Series Age rating: 6 Year: 2002 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Daniel Deronda is a British television serial drama adapted by Andrew Davies from the George Eliot novel of the same name. The serial was directed by Tom Hooper, produced by Louis Marks, and was first...

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To the Ends of the Earth

Series Age rating: 10 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 7.2

From Nobel Laureate William Golding's (Lord of the Flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an...

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South Riding

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 7.2

The lives and loves of a 1930s Yorkshire town explored in a passionate tale of politics in small places. South Riding charts the story of Sarah Burton's homecoming to Yorkshire in 1934 after twenty ye...

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The Flatshare

Series Age rating: 16 Year: 2022 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Tiffany and Leon are two cash-strapped twenty somethings who share a bed, but have never met. The question is, can you fall in love with someone you've never set eyes on?

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Above Suspicion

Series Age rating: 16 Year: 2009 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Above Suspicion is a British TV series based on Lynda La Plante's novels Above Suspicion, The Red Dahlia, Deadly Intent and Silent Scream. It stars Kelly Reilly and Ciarán Hinds, and features the care...

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The Lost World

Series Age rating: 10 Year: 1999 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Early 20th-century adventurers find themselves fighting for survival after their hot-air balloon crashes into a remote part of the Amazon, stranding them on a prehistoric plateau.

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Van der Valk

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 1972 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Ba...

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