The character named as "The Gentleman" in the TV series was named slightly more fully in the original novel as "The Gentleman with Thistledown Hair."
It was nominated for four BAFTA awards and recognized by the British Film Institute as one of the top ten most important television programs of 2015.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2015) is a seven-part British historical fantasy TV miniseries directed by Toby Haynes, adapted by Peter Harness from Susanna Clarke's best-selling 2004 novel of the same name. It premiered on BBC One on 17 May 2015 and ended on 28 June 2015.
Evan Ferguson of The Observer wrote that you could describe the series as "Harry Potter for adults" but that it was "far snakier and more thrilling" and likened it more to Peter Shaffer's Amadeus: "It's in the Sunday-night slot lately reserved for Poldark. And it's 10 times better."
Filming began on 28 October 2013 in Yorkshire, Canada and Croatia.