Thursday Thirteen

Today I'm going to share with you 13 series or mini series that I love watching. In fact, I have 4 of them on DVD and video. Can you guess which ones?

1. Scarlett, The Sequel to Gone with the Wind: starring Timothy Dalton as Rhett Butler and Joanne Whalley-Kilmer as Scarlett O'Hara, aired in 1994.

2. North and South: With Patrick Swayze. North and South is an American television miniseries set before, during, and immediately after the American Civil War. It was based on the 1980s trilogy of novels North and South by John Jakes and follows its general storyline, despite some deviations. The three series were produced in 1985, 1986, and 1994 and follow the novels quite closely, although there are considerable differences, especially in Book Two. All three series (called "books") aired on the ABC-TV network in the United States. The first two series, entitled Books I and II, were an enormous success with audiences and critics, and remain among the highest-rated television miniseries in history.

3. Larkrise to Candleford: Julia Sawalha, Olivia Hallinan, Dawn French, Brendan Coyle, Olivia Grant, Mark Heap, Ben Miles and Liz Smith star in a ten-part adaptation of Flora Thompson’s magical memoir of her Oxfordshire childhood for BBC One, Lark Rise To Candleford, a love letter to a vanished corner of rural England and a heart-warming drama series teeming with wit, wisdom and romance.

4. Sons of Anarchy: an FX television series starring Charlie Hunnam, Ron Perlman, and Katey Sagal about the lives of a close-knit motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town somewhere in Northern California.

5. Sex and the City: an American cable television series. The original run of the show was broadcast on HBO from 1998 until 2004, for a total of six seasons.

6. Grey's Anatomy : an American medical drama television series. It follows the lives of five surgical interns, later residents and their mentors in the fictional Seattle Grace Hospital. Besides their careers the series also follows their personal lives. The pilot episode, "A Hard Day's Night" premiered on March 27, 2005 on ABC. Since then, five seasons have aired, with a sixth announced.

7. Ghost Whisperer : an American television series created by John Gray. It first premiered on CBS on September 23, 2005.
The series follows the life of Melinda Gordon (Jennifer Love Hewitt), a young woman from Grandview, New York, who has the ability to see and communicate with the dead. While trying to live as normal a life as possible, Melinda helps them pass over to the other side by working as a paranormal investigator.

8. Friends: premiered on NBC (National Broadcasting Company) on September 22, 1994. The series revolved around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses.

9. Map and Lucia: based on the books by E.F Benson. The TV series based on the three 1930s' books, produced by London Weekend Television, was filmed in Rye and neighbouring Winchelsea in the 1980s, and starred Prunella Scales as Mapp, Geraldine McEwan as Lucia, Denis Lill as Major Benji Flint, and Nigel Hawthorne as Georgie. There were ten episodes, (two series of 5 episodes) broadcast on Channel 4 in 1985 and 1986.

10. Cutting It was a popular BBC television programme set in Manchester, England, which ran for four series between 2002 and 2005.

11. The Apprentice (UK TV series), the UK edition starring Sir Alan Sugar.

12. CSI: an American crime drama television series. CSI premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. It is filmed primarily at Universal Studios in Universal City, California.

13. The Bold and the Beautiful: an American television soap opera. Set in Los Angeles, California, the show centers around the Forrester family and their fashion house business Forrester Creations.