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Hat trick of Golden Globe nominations for Cranford
BBC1 period drama Cranford has picked up three nominations in this year’s Golden Globe awards. The series, co-produced by the BBC Drama and WGBH, is the only UK show in the running for best mini-series or film made for TV. The other nominees in the category are John Adams, Recount, Bernard & Doris and A [...]
Cranford Emmy Nominations
Cranford, broadcast in the US as part of public service broadcaster PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre strand, features the lives of the residents of a small Cheshire market town in the 1840s. The BBC1 costume drama will be up against HBO’s John Adams, Sci-Fi Channel’s Tin Man and A&E’s The Andromeda Strain in the best miniseries category. [...]
Cranford Air-times on PBS Masterpiece
Synopsis: A three-part adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell’s “Cranford,” about life in an 1840s Cheshire village. Judi Dench and Eileen Atkins star as sisters Matty and Deborah Jenkyns who, in the opener, welcome an old friend (Lisa Dillon) to live with them. Also, the town’s new doctor (Simon Woods) introduces new medical procedures and causes hearts [...]
Wiltshire village to star again in Cranford
By Gazette Reporter BBC TV cameras will return to Lacock to film a Christmas special of hit period drama Cranford. Stars of the original series, including Dame Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton and Francesca Annis, have all joined the follow-up to the autumn series. The special will pick up life in the small Cheshire market town [...]
A return to the glory days of costume drama, courtesy of Elizabeth Gaskell
In the days when I used to whip through Victorian novels as if they were meringues, Cranford was never one of my favourites. I liked my Gaskell to taste of soot and sweat, for the action to take place in Manchester basements with dirt floors, a minimum of 12 coughing inhabitants to every room. Now, [...]
The first housewife superstar
By William Langley – Daily Telegraph Profile: Elizabeth Gaskell It has taken 150 years for the novelist known as Mrs Gaskell to escape the deathgrip of Victorian sanctimony and ascend into our age as Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Superstar – mother, mistress of manners, model of multi-tasking, and, from tonight, the surest hit on television. The [...]