Gunpowder, Treason & Plot - Miniseries (2004)

With true grit, venomous dialogue, and buckets of conflict, writer Jimmy McGovern's presents his beautiful and brutal telling of the turbulent reigns of mother-and-son Scottish monarchs Mary, Queen of Scots and King James VI of Scotland, who would go on to become King James I of England. There is plotting aplenty as the pair struggle to take control of England, shrewdly manipulating the sectarian divide between Catholics and Protestants.