Making MASTERPIECE, Episode Two: Minorpiece Theatre

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🗓️ 7 March 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Masterpiece Theatre enters its third decade and settles in under its third executive producer, Rebecca Eaton, as new challenges pop up to make the Boston-based anthology series' life a touch more difficult. Cable TV competition, shifting public taste and limited funding lead Eaton and her team to make dramatic changes at the dawn of the new century. Fortunately for public TV viewers, those changes come just in time to scoop up some unlikely new hits — from Middlemarch and The Buccaneers to Prime Suspect and beyond, including a certain family drama set in a fancy Yorkshire estate...

In this second episode of Making MASTERPIECE, hear from Rufus Sewell, Laura Linney, Alan Cumming, Andrew Davies, Charles Dance and many more. See our website, pbs.org/makingmasterpiece, for a full transcript with links.

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0:14.0	Listen today at RaymondJames.com slash podcast.
0:18.6	Before we get going here, if you're just joining us and have not yet listened to the
0:22.2	first episode of Making Masterpiece, take a moment to do that.
0:26.0	This will make a lot more sense if you do.
0:28.3	You can find episode one, the beginning at pbs.org slash masterpiece studio in the masterpiece
0:34.6	studio podcast feed or wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:41.2	In the early 90s, screenwriter Andrew Davis had a vision for an exciting new television
0:46.6	series.
0:47.6	It was something he'd been thinking about for a while.
0:50.7	I guess I'd always had my adaptation partly in my head.
0:57.3	This was already a masterpiece theater regular.
0:59.8	He'd written to serve them all my days, mother love, house of cards.
1:04.2	But at the time, Davis wasn't thinking about contemporary British politics.
1:08.3	He was thinking about the 19th century novel, Middle March.
1:11.5	You know, a lot of people regard Middle March the greatest of all English novels.
1:17.7	But that doesn't mean the best adaptation would copy out every word of it.
1:24.0	Davis's version of Middle March wasn't stuffy.
1:26.5	It felt sexy and addictive.
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