TV Series · 2007 · TV Series · 2000s
Cranford
Scored from 36 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
In 1842 the Cheshire market town of Cranford is ruled less by law than by the etiquette of its genteel, mostly unmarried ladies, chief among them the timid Miss Matty Jenkyns and her formidable sister Deborah. Their ordered world is unsettled by Dr Frank Harrison, a young surgeon arriving with modern London methods; by the estate manager Mr Carter and the aristocratic Lady Ludlow; and by a railway line pushing toward the town. Over five episodes, courtships, feuds, illnesses and small scandals play out, observed by the visiting Mary Smith. Adapted by Heidi Thomas from three Elizabeth Gaskell stories, this BBC period drama mixes comedy of manners with domestic tragedy.
Cranford is a 2007 drama television series. Episodes run about 1h. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom.
Only 36 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 39 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. 1,359 other television series from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Cranford lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 2000s (1,360 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 36.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
