Blast from the Past
I'm so, so happy! I found one of my old favorites on DVD on Amazon: Berkeley Square (1998).
It's a mini series of three nannies working in families in the prestigious Berkeley Square in Edwardian London (1902). Wonderful stuff, and rather realistic without sugarcoating the times or the occupation. A bonus is Jeremy Irons's son playing a naughty upper-class young man.
A semantic question for ye Americans, though...since I buy a lot of these multi-episode period dramas, I've often wondered something. I call this sort of stuff "series" because it's comprised of several episodes, but I frequently see Americans call these "films" or "movies" - even Anne of Green Gables that had several parts. As an English teacher-to-be, it interests me, as I never realised the word "film/movie" might have a different, expanded meaning in the US. Sometimes I've seen people use the word "show", but I've thought "shows" are more "Conan O'Brien" type stuff or game shows, not really historical dramas. Is the word "series" used at all in the US in this context?
It's a mini series of three nannies working in families in the prestigious Berkeley Square in Edwardian London (1902). Wonderful stuff, and rather realistic without sugarcoating the times or the occupation. A bonus is Jeremy Irons's son playing a naughty upper-class young man.
A semantic question for ye Americans, though...since I buy a lot of these multi-episode period dramas, I've often wondered something. I call this sort of stuff "series" because it's comprised of several episodes, but I frequently see Americans call these "films" or "movies" - even Anne of Green Gables that had several parts. As an English teacher-to-be, it interests me, as I never realised the word "film/movie" might have a different, expanded meaning in the US. Sometimes I've seen people use the word "show", but I've thought "shows" are more "Conan O'Brien" type stuff or game shows, not really historical dramas. Is the word "series" used at all in the US in this context?