PBS MASTERPIECE CONTEMPORARY
September 26, 2008 PBS fans take note - check out the latest modern Brit dramas from the new MASTERPIECE CONTEMPORARY series. It will start with the egdy techno-thriller "The Last Enemy," as well as introducing the adorable and articulate (I could just listen to him speak all day long) host Matthew Goode (Match Point).
This first season explores the trend toward a surveillance society in the post-9/11 world, the trial of God in the shadow of the Holocaust, and censorship in the freewheeling culture of 1960s England:
The Last Enemy
Sundays, October 5 - November 2 at 9pm
A gripping five-part miniseries by Prime Suspect 6 writer Peter Berry about an expatriate mathematician who returns to England to find the nation transformed into a hyper-paranoid surveillance society, plagued by terrorists, fugitives, and spies. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch (Atonement) and Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty).
God on Trial
Sunday, November 9, 9 to 10:30pm
Who is to blame for the greatest of all crimes? Antony Sher (Primo), Dominic Cooper (The Duchess), Stellan Skarsgard (Mama Mia!) and Stephen Dillane (John Adams) star as a group of Auschwitz prisoners who put God on trial for abandoning His chosen people.
Filth
Sunday, November 16, 9 to 10:30 pm
Shocked by a BBC program about premarital sex broadcast at teatime, Mary Whitehouse (Julie Walters, Harry Potter) rises from her quaint suburban life to do battle with the innovative, taboo-breaking head of the BBC during the free-wheeling 1960s. Forty-five years later, the question of what is and what is not acceptable for broadcast television remains a hot issue.
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