A vote on the best historical costume drama TV series ever made, spanning Tudor England, Regency ballrooms, Downton's servants' hall, and the courts of Versailles and Russia.
1Downton AbbeyBritish aristocratic family and servant drama spanning the early 20th century.
2The CrownChronicle of the British royal family from the mid-20th century onward.
3OutlanderTime-travel romance between a 1940s nurse and an 18th-century Scottish warrior.
4Wolf HallBBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel's novels about Thomas Cromwell in the Tudor court.
5BridgertonRegency-era romance among London's high-society families.
6The TudorsShowtime drama dramatizing the reign of King Henry VIII.
7PoldarkBBC drama following a Cornish landowner after the American Revolutionary War.
8ReignCW drama dramatizing the early life of Mary, Queen of Scots.
9VictoriaITV/PBS drama chronicling the reign of Queen Victoria.
10VersaillesFrench-produced drama about the court of Louis XIV.
11Gentleman JackBBC/HBO drama based on the diaries of 19th-century landowner Anne Lister.
12SanditonITV/PBS drama adapting Jane Austen's unfinished final novel.
13BelgraviaITV drama from Julian Fellowes set among 19th-century London society.
14The GreatHulu satirical dramedy loosely based on the rise of Catherine the Great.
15HarlotsDrama set among rival brothels in 18th-century London.
16Catherine the GreatHBO/Sky miniseries starring Helen Mirren as the Russian empress.
