2011
BBC-1

2011
BBC-1

Summary The First World War is over, so Sarah Burton is returning to her home in Yorkshire after helping with the war effort in London. A modern woman, her views are foreign to those of her friends. But her passion and ambition put off men, particularly that of Robert Carne, a handsome farmer who she loves to hate. This three-parter stars ...

Drama

2011
BBC-1

2011
BBC-1

South Riding

Name: South Riding
Genre: Drama
Released: 2010-11-30
Rating: 62
Cast: Anna Maxwell Martin, David Morrissey, Penelope Wilton, Katherine McGolpin, Charlie May-Clark

Season 1 Premiere: Nov 30, 2010

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings

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3 Episodes • 2011

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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews

57% Positive
4 Reviews

29% Mixed
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14% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews

57% Positive
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14% Negative
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New York Daily News

May 2, 2011

South Riding creates memorable characters, particularly Burton and Carne, and it's beautifully filmed.

By David Hinckley FULL REVIEW

Miami Herald

May 2, 2011

South Riding has everything you could want from a Masterpiece event: perfect period details, a forlornly gray surf, a swelling soundtrack, disputes over crunchy-gravel real estate, whistling trains and black-tie dinners in hotels, a believable and compelling story involving multiple characters and plots and a faithfulness to its original material that allows for a textured, even sorrowful, bleakness.

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Wall Street Journal

Apr 29, 2011

These are, in short, characters with a long literary-and Hollywood-pedigree. Which makes all the more impressive the vividness and mystery they bring to this series (adapted by Andrew Davies from a 1936 novel by Winifred Holtby)--thanks, needless to say, to extraordinarily seductive performances.

By Dorothy Rabinowitz FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

Apr 29, 2011

Mr. Davies appears to have struggled with the material...But his dialogue is as sharp as ever, and there are excellent scenes between Sarah and Mrs. Beddows (Penelope Wilton), her champion on the school board, and Sarah and Robert (David Morrissey), the conservative landowner she wins to her side (in more ways than one).

By Mike Hale FULL REVIEW

Los Angeles Times

May 2, 2011

For fans of the canon, South Riding is "Masterpiece" comfort food, enjoyable enough in the moment, but melting away to nothing but sugar and fat by morning.

By Mary McNamara FULL REVIEW

Variety

Apr 28, 2011

As is, South Riding (named for its fictional community in Yorkshire) is a handsome production, but not an especially memorable one--conjuring only a few moments worthy of the "Masterpiece" pedigree before riding into the sunset.

By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW

San Francisco Chronicle

Apr 26, 2011

If only Holtby and screenwriter Andrew Davies hadn't larded the story with so many cliches, not to mention people who seem like second-rate versions of characters created by Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte.

By David Wiegand FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings

7.0

75% Positive
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25% Mixed
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British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Initial Release Date: Nov 30, 2010

Number of seasons: 1 Season

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Awards

BAFTA Awards

• 1 Win & 3 Nominations

Monte-Carlo TV Festival

• 1 Nomination

Royal Television Society, UK

• 1 Nomination

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Top Cast

Anna Maxwell Martin

Sarah Burton

David Morrissey

Robert Carne

Penelope Wilton

Mrs Beddows

Katherine McGolpin

Midge Carne

Charlie May-Clark

Lydia Holly

Douglas Henshall

Joe Astell

Shaun Dooley

Mr Holly

Peter Firth

Anthony Snaith

Ian Bartholomew

Gaius Drew

John Henshaw

Alfred Huggins

Lydia Wilson

Muriel Carne

Daniel West

Young Robert Carne

Brid Brennan

Miss Sigglesthwaite

Jennifer Hennessy

Mrs Holly

Marie Critchley

Mrs Brimsley

Alexandra Pearson

Gertie Holly

Janine Mellor

Bessy Warbuckle

Penny Layden

Mrs Huggins

Renny Krupinski

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John-Paul Hurley

Reg Aythorne

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