In 2006 the Banquet, a lavish costume drama, again broke the box office at home but was mostly ignored abroad.

2006年，《夜宴》，一部服饰美艳奢华的古装片，再一次在国内打破票房纪录，在海外同样被忽略。

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It's the reason why CCTV's schedules are dominated by recycled kung fu classics and Qing dynasty soap operas and why moviemakers remain in thrall to the costume drama.

这是为什么央视尽播翻炒的经典功夫片和清代电视剧，而电影则总是古装片。

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The costume drama is very popular across the world and the audience loves how quintessentially British the show is.

这部剧在全球拥有众多粉丝，观众们对其中原汁原味的英国味道十分喜爱。

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Such is the influence of this kind of drama that the Mail on Sunday ran an article criticising ITV1's flagship Sunday evening costume drama, Downton Abbey, for apparently unwelcome "breakneck" pace in the second series.

BBC: Is slow TV taking over the airwaves?

One day Roland Emmerich will take a breather and give us a modest, thinly peopled costume drama in which, at the climax, somebody drops a teacup, but that day has not yet dawned.

NEWYORKER: (director: Roland Emmerich; 2009)

However, if your brain has not been addled by the mulled wine of this festive season then you will also enjoy the gentle humour of sharp word play along with the mocking of convoluted costume drama dialogue and the associated plot coincidences.

BBC: By Wilfred Arasaratnam