Tag: Masterpiece
Clash over Poirot rights caps growing tensions between PBS, Acorn
Acorn TV, the upstart streaming service specializing in British television, is still a tiny operation, with about 115,000 paid subscribers. Nonetheless, its ...Sherlock adds three Emmys in primetime ceremony
Sherlock: His Last Vow, a BBC production that aired as part of WGBH’s Masterpiece, won three Primetime Emmys at the televised awards ceremony Monday. That brought ...Popularity of ‘Downton’ creates embarrassment of riches in ‘Masterpiece’ slot
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The success of Downton Abbey, whose fifth season has been set for Jan. 4, has created a novel problem for PBS: ...Final Poirot episodes reach U.S. via on-demand service
Three of the five final episodes in the Hercule Poirot detective series, a longtime favorite on Masterpiece Mystery!, will debut in the U.S. next ...PBS to track behavior of viewers pledging to core-schedule programs
In an experiment signaling public TV’s resolve to address concerns about the long-term effects of transactional pledging on its donor base, PBS ...Revived Foyle’s War mysteries bring 1940’s Cold War intrigue to PBS
In a new three-part Foyle's War series on Masterpiece Mystery!, Chief Detective Superintendent Christopher Foyle comes out of retirement to work in the intelligence community, not ...San Diego Comic-Con will include Sherlock panel
PBS will have a presence at the San Diego Comic-Con for the first time in 44 years, with a Sherlock panel in the upcoming conference, Entetainment Weekly ...Next Masterpiece drama set in hospital gynecology unit in 1961
Masterpiece and ITV Studios, production home to Downton Abbey, will partner again on Breathless, a medical drama set in a London hospital’s busy gynecology unit in ...Rebecca Eaton and Newton Minow honored for distinguished service to public television
As the executive producer who acquired and managed co-productions of British dramas for Masterpiece and its predecessor titles for more than 26 years, ...Edwardian-themed screenings provide jolly good show for Downton fans
To whet local viewers’ appetites for the return of the megahit British drama Downton Abbey this Sunday, more than 100 pubcasting stations across the ...Great Expectations exceeds expectations by winning four of PBS’s 11 Creative Arts Primetime Emmys
As a Masterpiece production competing against other miniseries, movies and specials, Great Expectations received Emmys for outstanding achievement in costume design (Annie Symons, Yvonne Duckett), art direction ...Downton gives public TV a ratings blockbuster
The Season 2 finale of Downton Abbey on Masterpiece Classic, aired Feb. 19, won the biggest audience for a PBS program since the premiere of Ken ...Unusual rights delay: hint of budget strife?
PBS’s ongoing negotiations to curb per-hour costs of producing programs and to assert more control over content are increasing friction with its ...Anglophiles may now swoon (again)
Henry Becton, whose employer co-produced a lot of television programs with British broadcasters, is now an Honorary Commander of the Most Excellent ...George Foster Peabody Awards for 2009
Producers for public broadcasting — and developers for its websites — received 14 Peabody Awards, announced March 31, 2010 Regarding websites, ...
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