Tag: Masterpiece Theatre
Masterpiece to be umbrella for 3 strands
Suspecting that Masterpiece Theatre is showing its age after 36 seasons — an eon in TV years — the program’s producers at Boston’s WGBH ...Alistair Cooke, 95
Just five weeks after filing his last Letter from America for the BBC, Alistair Cooke died March 30 [2004] at his home in Manhattan. ...PBS loses biggest underwriter as it considers 30-second credits
ExxonMobil will stop underwriting Masterpiece Theatre after spring 2004, the oil company announced Dec. 13. It has spent more than $250 million on MT and ...Series founder Stanford Calderwood dies
Stanford Calderwood, who served only a few months as president of WGBH, Boston, but initiated one of its most enduring franchises, Masterpiece Theatre, died ...Master of talks: Cooke, in his Letter from America
Masterpiece Theatre was a relatively short run for Alistair Cooke, and his intros mere appetizers. For more of Cooke, as he turns 90, sample ...How should public TV follow up the Forsyte Saga success?
Near the end of June 1970, Stanford Calderwood and his wife, Norma Jean, were comfortably settled in their regular rooms in London’s ...How did ‘The Buccaneers’ end up with such a happy ending?
Fifty-seven years ago, in her last novel, Edith Wharton told the story of The Buccaneers — a platoon of lovely American girls invading England, ...
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