BBC movie series recommendations please :)

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Alla: 
> I LOVE them. I also read the book and loved it and yes, couple of changes to the story annoyed me, but they do not take away from main storyline for the most part, so I still loved David's teaching battles and his obvious love for kids and I loved all the teachers. And heh, Howarth (sp?) reminded me of Snape the way I think Snape should have been if he gave a d*mn about kids.
> 
> And where where do you guys find soooo many talented actors? :-)

Potioncat:
I read TSTAMD after one of Geoff's recommendations. I like the book better than the series. Like you Alla, Howarth reminded me of Snape.

And I agree with Alla's question, Where do all those wonderful actors come from? I would have asked sooner, but there's a sterotype that we Americans automatically think an actor with a British accent is a better actor. I've been watching more British productions over the past couple of years, and British actors seem to play a wider variety of roles than American actors. There seems to be no conceit about how they look. Imelda Stanton and Judi Dench have looked pretty horrible in movies, then looked great in following ones.
> 
> Geoff:
> > As others have said, there is a list series as long as your arm.
> > 
> > One I would recommend which is runs to 7 series and 90 
> > episodes is "All Creatures Great and Small", based on a series 
> > of books about vets** working in the North of England from the 
> > 1930s to the 1950s.

Potioncat:
I like both, books and series. Some of the accents are hard for me to understand--but that makes it all the more fun.

I caught a good portion of the recent David Copperfield the other week. It was discussed here not too long ago. What a gem! Except, I had to skip over some of the early scenes between David and his step-father--too horrible. But to make it worse, the character reminded me of Snape when he defended his actions.

Our household was playing "Where's the HP actor?" all though the movie.