Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~60 min/episode
- Length
- 1 season · 4 episodes
- Status
- Ended · complete
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
Why tonight?
- One season, and then it ends — a story with a last episode, not a habit.
The story
Margaret Hale is a southerner from a country vicarage newly settled in the industrial northern town of Milton. In the shock of her move, she misjudges charismatic cotton mill-owner John Thornton, whose strength of purpose and passion are a match for her own pride and willfulness. When the workers of Milton call a strike, Margaret takes their side, and the two are brought into deeper conflict. As events spiral out of control, Margaret - to her surprise - begins to fall in love with Thornton...
- england
- romance
- period drama
- costume drama
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Tim Pigott-Smith
- Pauline Quirke
- Kay Lyon
- Brendan Coyle
- Anna Maxwell Martin
- Lesley Manville
- David Fleeshman
- Shaun Hennessey
- Jonathan Magnanti
- John Finn
- Jane Cameron
- Directed
- Brian Percival
- Created
- Elizabeth Gaskell, Sandy Welch
- Written
- Sandy Welch
Production
- Rating
- 8.1 / 10 · 208 ratings
- Network & studio
- BBC One, BBC
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
