This marks the latest effort to bring North and South to the small screen. ABC broadcast a six-part miniseries over three years in 1985, 1986 and 1994 starring Patrick Swayze as Orry Main.

With the period drama North and South, television out-sprawled film in the love-blood-and-tears Civil War epic department.David O. Selznick might have had Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in 1939’s ...

Discovery has announced the development of a new miniseries adaptation of John Jakes’ trilogy of “North and South” novels set during run-up to the Civil War. According to Discovery, the ...

ABC’s “North and South” premiered in 1985 and starred Patrick Swayze as Orry Main and James Read as George Hazard. The miniseries also featured Elizabeth Taylor, Kirstie Alley, Jonathan ...

Discovery and Lionsgate are hoping they can re-create ratings history too: ABC’s North And South was such a hit with viewers, ABC turned the miniseries into a miniseries SERIES. The second at ...

John Jakes, the celebrated author known for his historical North and South trilogy that sold 10 million copies and became three ABC miniseries in the 1980s and ’90s, has died. He was 90.

Civil War Miniseries ‘North and South’ Brewing at Discovery and Lionsgate. New series to come some 30 years after the Emmy-winning 'North and South' starring Kirstie Alley and Patrick Swayze.

David Wolper has not allowed rumors about the death of the miniseries to stop him from producing a $60 million maxiseries about the Civil War.The man who pioneered the modern television miniseries ...

North And South, the first book in the series, was published in 1982, with Love And War arriving in ’84 and Heaven And Hell in ’87. All three were bestsellers.

In fact, they argued, unlike the "wage slavery" of the North, the slavery system in the South provided food, clothing, medical care, and leisure to slaves, caring for them throughout their lives.