Shows Like Downton Abbey

Julian Fellowes' spiritual successor — same upstairs/downstairs class drama, lavish costume design and ensemble structure transplanted to 1880s New York.

The original master-servant aristocratic household chronicle Downton openly draws from — same Edwardian-into-modern era and dual-class structure.

Prestige BBC period ensemble drama with Dench and Atkins, gentle social-change focus and the same cozy class-stratified small-world tone.

Long-running gentle British period ensemble about rural class divides; shares Brendan Coyle and the warm, character-driven Sunday-night feel.

Beloved BBC costume drama about class friction and romance in industrial England — same prestige, same period-drama audience.

Definitive English costume-drama miniseries about class, marriage and manners — the gold standard Downton fans graduate to.

Edwardian-England class drama set in nearly the exact same era as Downton's opening seasons, with intersecting upper/middle/lower-class families.

Andrew Davies-penned Austen-adjacent costume drama with Regency romance, social climbing and resort-society scheming for the same audience.

Multigenerational late-Victorian upper-class family chronicle — closest current-era pure analogue to the Crawley saga.

18th-century London costume drama with rival households and class hierarchy, but with bawdier, grittier tone than Downton.

Period drama with costume-drama production values, but US Revolutionary spycraft is a substantial tonal departure from English aristocratic life.

The other definitive prestige British aristocracy drama — Maggie Smith fans, royal-household upstairs/downstairs structure, and similar lavish 20th-century scope.

BBC period ensemble in 20th-century England spanning class divides with the same warm, multi-character, episodic-melodrama rhythm Downton viewers love.

Edwardian/early-20th-century London period drama with a large ensemble of staff and bosses — direct contemporary of Downton in setting and tone.