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MASTERPIECE RECEIVES THREE 2010 GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association honored Masterpiece with three Golden Globe nominations for the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards. Emmy-winner Little Dorrit was named in the Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television category. In the Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television category, both Kenneth Branagh for Wallander and Chiwetel Ejiofor for Endgame were recognized.
"That the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognized three of our productions is a huge honor," says Masterpiece executive producer Rebecca Eaton. "We're thrilled for Kenneth, Chiwetel, and the entire Little Dorrit team."
The 67th Annual Golden Globes Awards ceremony is set for Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 8 p.m. ET.
Highlights from the 2010 Masterpiece Classic Season
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Return to Cranford
Dame Judi Dench reprises her role as Matty Jenkyns in the highly anticipated two-part sequel to the Emmy-nominated Cranford miniseries, based on Elizabeth Gaskell's beloved novels about a small village in the 1840s on the cusp of great change.
Emma
A fiercely funny new adaptation of Jane Austen's delightful love story starring Romola Garai (Atonement) as a young woman whose attempts to play cupid go disastrously awry. Jonny Lee Miller (Endgame) stars as Mr. Knightley, and Michael Gambon (Cranford) as Emma's father.
The 39 Steps
Secret agent Richard Hannay battles German spies on the eve of World War I in a riveting and romantic new version of the classic thriller by John Buchan, made famous in Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 movie. Masterpiece favorite Rupert Penry-Jones (Persuasion) stars as Hannay.
Sharpe's Challenge
In 1817, soldier-adventurer Richard Sharpe comes out of retirement to quash a rebellion in British India and rescue his old friend. Sean Bean returns as the swashbuckling hero of this legendary series based on the novels of Bernard Cornwell. Top Chef's Padma Lakshmi guest stars.
Sharpe's Peril
The thrilling adventures of Colonel Richard Sharpe continue as he leads a ragtag party of civilians and soldiers across India, with the murderous army of an opium lord in hot pursuit. Daragh O'Malley stars as Sharpe's comrade-in-arms, Sergeant Major Patrick Harper.
The Diary of Anne Frank
The most accurate adaptation of Anne Frank's account of life hiding from the Nazis stars Ellie Kendrick as a maturing teenager who undergoes an extraordinary ordeal. Iain Glen, Tamsin Greig and Felicity Jones also star. The Diary of Anne Frank airs on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2010.
Small Island
The saga of two couples — one Jamaican, one English — whose lives intertwine in both friendship and tragic misunderstanding in post-World-War-II Britain. Naomie Harris and David Oyelowo star as the Jamaican immigrants, with Ruth Wilson and Benedict Cumberbatch as their English landlords.

