PBS Fall season: personal reminder

[mmebahorel]

"Masterpiece Mystery!" closes out its summer run with "The Ruby in the Smoke" (Sept. 21) and "The Shadow in the North" (Sept. 28), starring Billie Piper ("Secret Diary of a Call Girl") as feisty female sleuth Sally Lockhart in these two adaptations of Philip Pullman's popular novels.

Masterpiece Contemporary: The Last Enemy (Oct. 5): This five-hour thriller provides a cautionary tale of a post-Sept. 11, 2001, society in which "ordinary citizens will become the enemy, the last enemy," according to scriptwriter Peter Berry. The series stars Benedict Cumberbatch ("Atonement") as a mathematician caught up in the aftermath of the death of his brother (Max Beesley) over stolen information.

Masterpiece Contemporary: God on Trial (Nov. 9): This drama centers on a group of Jews in the Auschwitz concentration camp on the night before they are to be put to death. They ask themselves the age-old question: How can God allow this to happen? Stellan Skarsgard, Dominic Cooper, Antony Sher, Rupert Graves and Stephen Dillane star.

Don't know that I can handle Shadow in the North. I still remember being very upset with Philip Pullman for how he ended that one. Plus Billie Piper really sucks as Sally Lockhart. But it's JJ, and I adore JJ, and I just don't know.

Comments

[toi-marguerite.livejournal.com]

Benedict Cumberbatch debuted as William Pitt the Younger in Amazing Grace! <3 Oh man, he was so awesome in that.

[mmebahorel.livejournal.com]

I will always think of him as Nan's "boyfriend" in Tipping the Velvet. (also, he was really awesome in To the Ends of the Earth.)

[meghatron.livejournal.com]

I saw Ruby in the Smoke when it aired on the BBC, but I didn't realize they'd made Shadow in the North. Must set the DVR...

[mmebahorel.livejournal.com]

We'll get Tiger in the Well next year.

[meghatron.livejournal.com]

Woot!