Monday, February 27, 2012

‘Downton Abbey’ creator presents ABC’s ‘Titanic' April 14 (ORLANDO SENTINEL)

ABC, Masterpiece, PBS — posted by halboedeker on February, 27 2012 1:43 PM

How to treat withdrawal from “Downton Abbey”?

Book passage on ABC’s five-hour “Titanic,” which comes from “Abbey” author Julian Fellowes. The miniseries arrives at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 14, and runs till 11 that night. And, yes, Saturday scheduling of new scripted programming is unusual — about as unusual as a miniseries from a broadcast network these days.

The miniseries concludes from 9 to 11 p.m. Sunday, April 15, the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking. Linus Roache of “Law & Order” heads the cast as Hugh, Earl of Manton. Geraldine Somerville of the “Harry Potter” films plays the earl’s wife, Louisa. Perdita Weeks of “The Tudors” is their suffragette daughter, Georgiana, who takes a shine to a young American passenger, Harry Widener.

Read more:  http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2012/02/downton-abbey-creator-writes-abcs-titanic.html



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