MASTERPIECE Must-Knows: Fall 2019 & Beyond
What’s on the 2019/2020 schedule for MASTERPIECE on PBS? Find out news, airdates, who’s cast and how to watch exciting new and beloved returning series!
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Poldark: Airing Sundays, Sept. 29-Nov. 17, 9/8c
Poldark‘s Season 5 will mark the beginning of Ross Poldark’s long ride into the sunset and out of our lives. From the cast to the characters to the plot, here’s everything you need to know about the new and final season of the show that’s had us hanging on the edge of a cliff ever since the very first episode!
Already immersed in Season 5? Don’t miss our cast video interviews and our special online features!
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The Durrells in Corfu: Airing Sundays Sept. 29-Nov. 3, 8/7c
The future’s looking bright in sun-dappled Corfu for Louisa and her family of budding entrepreneurs, who set their ambitions on books, beauty, the opening of a B&B…plus—as always—animals and romance! What could possibly go wrong? Get details on the final season, and read what the cast had to say about ending the series.
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The Chaperone: Airing Nov. 24, 9/8c
Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey‘s Lady Cora) and Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey‘s writer, creator, and executive producer) team up with MASTERPIECE again, with The Chaperone! Based on Laura Moriarty’s best-selling novel, The Chaperone is the story of Norma Carlisle (Elizabeth McGovern), a woman whose life is changed forever when she chaperones a young and soon-to-be-famous Louise Brooks (Haley Lu Richardson) to New York.
Watch The Chaperone now, exclusively with PBS Passport, an added member benefit. Then, don’t miss the television premiere on Sunday, November 24, 9/8c.
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Downton Abbey Movie: Rewatch the Entire Series Now
The Downton Abbey movie is here! Why not continue to bask in all things Crawley when you rewatch all six seasons with PBS Passport, an added member benefit, and find out what Michelle Dockery, Maggie Smith, and the rest of the cast have been up to since the epic series finale!
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Sanditon: Premieres Sunday, January 12, 2020 at 9/8c
Charlotte Heywood Sanditon is a sleepy seaside village, but for those with vision, like Tom Parker, it’s on its way to becoming a deluxe and fashionable resort! As for Sanditon the TV series coming to MASTERPIECE on Sunday, January 12, 2020, it’s is a bold adaptation of Jane Austen’s final, unfinished work, about what happens when the spirited yet levelheaded Charlotte Heywood arrives in Sanditon as Parker’s guest…and what happens when she goes head-to-head with his witty, prickly, yet decidedly handsome brother, Sidney.
Watch the trailer and find out everything we know right now about the characters, the cast, and the plot!
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World on Fire: Coming to MASTERPIECE
Jonah Hauer-King as Harry Chase World on Fire is an adrenalized, emotionally gripping and resonant World War II drama that follows the intertwining fates of ordinary people in five countries—from England, France, Germany, Poland, and America—as they grapple with the effects of the war on their everyday lives. Love, death, heroism, and forgiveness bind them together as the world changes around them.
Find out the latest news about World on Fire‘s production, take a look at the series’ first images, and see who’s in the stellar cast, which includes Academy Award®-winner Helen Hunt (As Good As it Gets, Mad About You), Sean Bean (Game of Thrones), Academy Award-nominee Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread), and Jonah Hauer-King (Little Women, Howard’s End).
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All Creatures Great and Small: Coming to MASTERPIECE
A brand-new adaptation of All Creatures Great and Small is coming to MASTERPIECE! It’s a reboot of the beloved long-running series from the late 1970s, based on the books of James Alfred Wight (pen name James Herriot); and if you like hilarious and heartwarming shenanigans, romance, and the soaring rough beauty of Yorkshire’s countryside, you’ll love the bachelors, eccentrics, farmers, aristocrats, dogs and pigs and sheep and cows, and—of course—romantic interests of All Creatures Great and Small! Find out more! Also, don’t miss the recent casting news about the series!
