Was "North and South" on TV recently?

One of the nice features of having a blog on TypePad is that you can track the stats of your readers and the origins of their clicks.  Yesterday and today I noticed something odd:  I've been getting quite a few hits from a referring address that is actually a Google Image Search for "Richard Armitage North and South".  

This is complicated for me.  While I love finding increased traffic on my site, I have to admit that this particular post might be one of the most embarrassing for me, because in it I reveal the fact that rather than spending my Christmas holiday watching "Repo Man" or "Eraserhead" or "The Decline of Western Civilization" like a good film hipster, I spent the week watching a BBC period piece.

And the only reason one would Gogle (Google + Ogle) Richard Armitage would be if they saw his smoldering hotness in "North and South".  

Now, either "North and South" has been on TV recently, or the economic downturn and threat of a Swine Flu pandemic has forced wanton media consumers into the arms of English costume dramas.  However, if getting a nice case of H1N1 Influenza is what's worrying you, might I suggest that there are better historical time periods to fantasize about than those before the dawn of microbiology, where people died of things like "hysteria" and "consumption" and "winter."

Yours etc.,

Aemilia Scott

P.S.  Now I am forced to watch the series again in its entirety.  Thank you, faceless horde of Internet.

Comments

[Phylly3]

Richard Armitage has been getting more and more popular since North & South with his appearance as Guy of Gisborne in BBC's Robin Hood series, which has now finished. Now he plays Lucas North in Spooks (as it is called in the UK) or MI-5 as called in North America. Unfortunately, most North American fans need to troll the internet for their Armitage fixes because these BBC series are way behind the times in our part of the world -- if they are even playing anywhere at all.