Shakespeare's Globe is setting up a new youth company to specialise in Jacobean period drama.
In 2001 he was among the cast for the Julian Fellowes-scripted period drama Gosford Park.
British period drama Downton Abbey has become a global sensation since hitting our screens in 2010.
Historically accurate details, woven into the backbone of "Copper, " transform it from period drama to believable reality.
The festival closed with French director Raoul Ruiz's period drama "Les Ames Fortes, " starring model Laetitia Casta.
Stevens, who plays aristocrat Matthew Crawley in the ITV period drama, will appear in The Heiress from October.
Doug Hughes stages repeated dynamic moments during the period drama, smartly retaining much of Odets' stilted yet colorful dialogue.
Beginning Sunday, Showtime will air The Tudors, a sex-drenched period drama about the early reign of England's King Henry VIII.
She has had major roles opposite Keira Knightley in Anna Karenina and period drama A Royal Affair with Mads Mikkelsen.
It was a good night for British talent in the television categories, which saw ITV1 period drama Downton Abbey named best mini-series.
And for a period drama, that treatment is, in a word, surprising.
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Another BBC One period drama, Parade's End, which received a total of five nominations walked away with one award for best costume design.
The period drama Belle began production in the Isle of Man on 24 September and was the island's first collaboration with Pinewood Shepperton studios.
Their flair for the unorthodox has even led them to trade in their business suits for samurai costumes to appear in a period drama.
Actress Helena Bonham Carter is also shortlisted for her supporting role in period drama The King's Speech, while Tom Hooper gets a best director nod.
The period drama will shoot around the island for three weeks.
The period drama is the third film to receive investment from Pinewood Studios as part of a project to help fund and support smaller British independent films.
It had led to the Scottish broadcaster dropping several ITV drama series, including episodes of Midsomer Murders and the first series of the acclaimed period drama Downton Abbey.
Set six years after Pride and Prejudice ends, the book features Jane Austen's best-known characters, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy, and combines "classic period drama" with a suspenseful mystery plot.
The event, which was hosted by Aled Jones and Dewi Morris, saw period drama Carrie's War triumph in the categories of best design, best costume, best make-up and best original soundtrack.
Alan Partridge's Welcome to The Places of My Life and period drama spoof Hunderby are both on the shortlist for the Sky Arts channel - which also broadcasts the South Bank Awards.
This episodic period drama, based on the 1945 novel by Evelyn Waugh, is centered on Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode), a soldier in the Second World War, as he looks back on his life.
On the one hand, with its comforting array of British character actors and its kindly, not to say obsequious, approach to a royal triumph over circumstance, it touches the most conservative chords of period drama.
Avatar ended up making up its production costs to become the highest-grossing film of all time, but it is highly unlikely that a period drama and a literary adaptation at that will accomplish such a feat.
Naturally, global girls outgrow such local traditions as arranged marriages, dowry and bride price, which have not been exclusive to African tradition (see the English period drama, "Downton Abbey") but have certainly lingered longer in homes of African descent.
In addition to returning shows United States of Tara, Nurse Jackie, Weeds and Dexter, Showtime is readying The Borgias (a period drama starring Jeremy Irons), Episodes (A BBC co-produced comedy with Matt LeBlanc playing himself) and another middle-aged actress vehicle, The Big C (a cancer comedy starring Laura Linney).
And they went with me making this period Iran drama where I was the youngest person in the movie.
This Indian film a period musical drama about a group of drought-stricken villagers who play a cricket match against the British authorities to avoid taxation (lagaan) is pure Bollywood.
Obviously, there's no law that the musical score for a historical drama must be period specific.
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