Masterpiece Fall 2010

MASTERPIECE Mystery!: WALLANDER II Starring Kenneth Branagh Sundays, October 3, 10, 17 at 9pm on PBS Swedish cop Kurt Wallander is back on the beat in the award-winning role created by Kenneth Branagh and based on the international bestsellers by Henning Mankell. At odds with his family, friends, and fellow police, Wallander is in his element with serial killers and psychopaths, tracking them across the stark farm country of southern Sweden, which he does brilliantly in three new 90-minute cases that set the standard for steely-cold Scandinavian crime stories. October 3 - Faceless Killers October 10 - The Man Who Smiled October 17 - The Fifth Woman

MASTERPIECE Mystery!: Sherlock From the writers of Doctor Who Sundays, October 24, 31, and November 7, 2010 at 9pm on PBS Sherlock Holmes stalks again in a thrilling modern version of the Arthur Conan Doyle classic, starring Benedict Cumberbatch (Atonement) as the go-to consulting detective in 21st century London, with Martin Freeman (The OfficeUK, Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy) as his loyal friend, Dr. John Watson, and Rupert Graves (The Forsyte Saga) as the long-suffering Inspector Lestrade. Fast-paced, funny, and surreally true to the hero’s fantastic gifts for deduction, the series—co-created by Doctor Who’s Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss—was a massive hit when it aired this summer in the UK. October 23 – A Study in Pink October 31 – The Blind Banker November 7 – The Great Game

MASTERPIECE Contemporary: Lennon Naked Sunday, November 21, 2010 at 9pm ET on PBS Christopher Eccleston (Doctor Who) channels John Lennon in this acclaimed recreation of Lennon's last turbulent years with the Beatles, co-starring Naoko Mori (Torchwood) as Yoko Ono, the woman blamed for breaking up the band, and Christopher Fairbank (Tess of the D'Urbervilles) as Freddie Lennon, John's absentee father.

MASTERPIECE Contemporary: Framed Sunday, December 26, 2010 at 9pm ET on PBS An eccentric Welsh village learns that London's National Gallery is storing its entire art collection in a nearby mine during the museum's renovations—leading to curious encounters beween the village locals and the gallery's urbane, lovelorn curator. Trevor Eve (David Copperfield) and Eve Myles (Little Dorrit) star in this gentle comedy, based on Frank Cottrell Boyce's best-selling novel. -more- MASTERPIECE is presented on PBS by WGBH Boston. Rebecca Eaton is executive producer. Funding for the series is provided by public television viewers. pbs.org/masterpiece Online press materials available at pressroom.wgbh.org and pbs.org/pressroom

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