Each winter and spring,
Masterpiece classic features signature period dramas.
Masterpiece, the longest-running most honored drama series on primetime television,
celebrates the start of its 40th season with a
quintessential Masterpiece production, an updated version of an iconic classic and more.
Laura Linney hosts.
Congrats to PBS Masterpiece on their 40th season! I love watching their period dramas especially when
P&P 05 actors and their period films are featured and showing on PBS as well as any
Jane Austen movies/miniseries, Elizabeth Gaskill, and Dickens related.
One of those dramas I highly anticipate and can't wait to see in the 2011 season schedule will be
Any Human Heart, which stars our very own
Matthew Macfadyen (
Mr. Darcy) and
Tom Hollander (
Mr. Collins), former
P&P co-stars in their
4th TV and film projects (
Any Human Heart,
Pride & Prejudice,
Enigma,
Maybe Baby) they appeared and co-starred together.
Here's the schedule for
Any Human Heart on
Masterpiece Classic...
February 13, 20 & 27, 2011 at 9pmAny Human HeartWilliam Boyd adapts his acclaimed 2002 novel about a man — at various times a writer, lover, prisoner of war, and spy — making his often precarious way through the 20th century.
Matthew MacFadyen, Gillian Anderson, Hayley Atwell, Kim Cattrall,
Tom Hollander, and Jim Broadbent star.
Check out a few more
promotional stills featuring
Matthew Macfadyen and
Tom Hollander...
In other
AHH news, it recently just aired in the
UK's Channel 4 and now
Amazon.co.uk has posted a portion of the making of '
Any Human Heart'
video on their site, which includes
interviews and
behind-the-scenes shots with
Matthew Macfadyen, Jim Broadbent, Hayley Atwell as well as other cast members (perhaps including
Tom Hollander too!)
The
DVD (Region 2 UK/Europe only) will be released
December 27 and pre-orders are being taken now for guaranteed arrival. The behind the scenes portion is only available on the DVD, so, order yours today!
Here's the
UK DVD features:Special Features:- In Oxford with Sam Caflin
- Matthew MacFayden on location in Spain
- Interview with Jim Broadbent
- Kim Cattrall on 'Gloria'
- Gillian Anderson and Tom Hollander on playing the Duke and Duchess of Windsor
- Hayley Atwell on 'Freya'
- On the set of Any Human Heart
- From paper to screen - William Boyd discusses Any Human Heart
Back to
PBS'
Masterpiece Classic, another scheduled in the 2011 season schedule prior to
AHH, will be the
encore presentation of another period war drama featuring
Oscar nominated actress Carey Mulligan (
Kitty Bennet), another one of our very own
P&P actors whose period films are frequently featured on PBS' Masterpiece...
January 2, 2011My Boy Jack(
encore presentation)
In 1914 England, patriotism is high in the early days of WWI, and writer Rudyard Kipling (
David Haigh) is one of its most eloquent and passionate voices. John "Jack," (
Daniel Radcliffe), Kipling's only son, is underage, hopelessly myopic, and eager to join the war effort. Kipling's outspoken American wife Carrie (
Kim Cattrall) remains more sanguine on the course of the war, and the fate of her family. Also features
Carey Mulligan as
Jack's sister Elsie.
My Boy Jack, based on a true story, tells of a nation at war, and offers an intimate portrait of one family's complex and divided experience in it.
Plus two more interesting BBC period dramas,
Downton Abbey featuring
Penelope Wilton (aka
P&P 05's
Mrs. Gardiner) starting
January 9th and
Downstairs Upstairs featuring
Keeley Hawes (aka
Mrs. Matthew Macfadyen) plus actors that previously co-starred with
P&P actors such as
Matthew Macfadyen (his wife
Keeley Hawes in
Ashes to Ashes and
Spooks/MI-5 and
Claire Foy in
Little Dorrit),
Judi Dench (
Eileen Atkins in
Cranford along with script writer Heide Thomas), and
Rosamund Pike,
Tom Hollander and
Penelope Wilton (
Keeley Hawes also co-starred with them on
Wives and Daughters)...
January 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2011 at 9pmDownton AbbeySet in an Edwardian country house in 1912,
Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the
Crawley family and the servants who work for them. Written and created by Oscar-winning writer
Julian Fellowes, and starring
Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Penelope Wilton (as
Isobel Crawley),
Dan Stevens, Michelle Dockery, Jim Carter, and many others.
Watch Video: including Maggie Smith & Penelope Wilton
April 10, 17 & 24, 2011 at 9pmUpstairs DownstairsUpstairs Downstairs is an updated version of one of the most-loved and most-honored series in television history. The series has a new cast of characters and Jean Marsh reprising her Emmy-winning role as Rose. The cast also includes the original series co-creator
Eileen Atkins (Cranford),
Keeley Hawes (
Wives and Daughters, Spooks/MI-5),
Ed Stoppard,
Claire Foy (Little Dorrit) and
Art Malik (The Jewel in the Crown) with a script by Emmy-nominee
Heidi Thomas (Cranford).
