“Downton Abbey,” winner of six Emmy Awards, including the win for “Outstanding Miniseries or Movie,” depicts the lives of the noble Crawley family and the staff who serve them, set at their Edwardian country house in 1912.
Refresh your memory with the first season before Season 2 premieres on January 8, 2012.
Change is racing towards the small, close-knit village of Cranford like a steam train — quite literally. As the railroad continues to encroach on the town, Cranford strives to open to new realities, from surprising romances to unexpected losses and even waltzing! Matty Jenkyns (Judi Dench), Miss Pole (Imelda Staunton), Mrs. Forrester (Julia McKenzie) and Mrs. Jamieson (Barbara Flynn) are back with other distinguished residents of Cranford. Based on the stories of Victorian-era writer Elizabeth Gaskell, “Return to Cranford” also features Tom Hiddleston (“Wallander”) and Tim Curry.
Watch Friday, December 16 at 7pm on KCPT2.
Join KCPT and the National WWI Museum on Friday December 16, 2011 at 7pm for Downton Abbey Goes to War. Get a sneak-peek at the first hour of the much anticipated second season of Emmy Award winning Downton Abbey as the Great War unfolds. A conversation with Museum Curators will follow the screener.
Watch Downton Abbey Series II Preview on PBS. See more from MASTERPIECE.
This event is free and open to the public and seating is first come, first serve. RSVP below.
Downton Abbey season two starts January 8th at 8 pm on KCPT.
Read The Telegraph’s article about how the producers of Downton Abbey re-created the World War One battlefields for the season two.
When a middling copy editor/failed poet meets his former lover for lunch 15 years after their affair, he finds that everything — and nothing — has changed. From the tablecloths to the wine to his former lover, wealth and success now gloss the surface where kitsch and passion once held sway. He is bitter, petulant and increasingly inebriated; she is glamorous, generous, and eventually provoked. A dramatization of Christopher Reid’s acclaimed narrative poem, The Song of Lunch stars Alan Rickman (Harry Potter films) and Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility, film version) in the unnamed roles of He and She. Waiter, I’ll take the nostalgia special with a side of recrimination and finish with regret, for a lunch that celebrates love and ambition with poignancy, humor, and affection.
Masterpiece Contemporary: The Song of Lunch
Watch Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 8pm.
