Coming Soon: Making MASTERPIECE Documentary Miniseries

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🗓️ 10 January 2021

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Summary

Making MASTERPIECE is the full story of how public media’s favorite place for the best of British drama went from crazy idea to a franchise 50 years strong. Hosted by MASTERPIECE Studio host Jace Lacob, the three-part documentary miniseries features the inside scoop on everything from Downton Abbey to Upstairs, Downstairs, and everything in between. Featuring exclusive interviews with MASTERPIECE favorites like Rufus Sewell, Lily Collins, Alan Cumming, Laura Linney, Charles Dance and many more, Making MASTERPIECE launches February 28, 2021. Making MASTERPIECE will appear in the MASTERPIECE Studio podcast feed on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0	January 10th, 1971 was a Sunday, and that night a new show aired that would go on to change television.
0:15.0	That new show, Masterpiece Theater. For 50 years, Masterpiece Theater has been home to groundbreaking series like
0:20.8	Sherlock and Downtown Abbey, Prime Sus Suspect and Jewel in the Crown.
0:25.0	It's aired more than 400 different programs starring some very famous actors,
0:30.0	some of whom I'll talk to for this podcast.
0:34.0	Who are you and what you do?
0:37.0	My name is Charles Dance and I'm an actor.
0:39.0	I'm on-incoming.
0:40.0	Robin Ellis.
0:41.0	Crystal Clark.
0:42.0	Elizabeth McGovern.
0:43.0	My name is Laura Lenny and I'm an actress.
0:45.8	My name is Hugh Bonneville.
0:46.8	I'm an actor.
0:47.8	But this podcast isn't just about the actors.
0:51.0	It's about great television and what it takes to make it. It's about the ups and downs of showbiz and the surprisingly juicy behind the scenes drama of public television.
1:00.0	It's about 50 years of masterpiece history.
1:04.0	It was a gold mine.
1:05.0	It was really was a gold mine of stuff.
1:08.0	I binged it.
1:09.0	I didn't know that's what I was doing, but that's what I was doing.
1:11.0	And we were saying this book is about young people
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