A couple of PBS program notes:
The follow-up series to last season’s The Forsyte Saga on Masterpiece Theatre starts this Sunday, Feb. 8, and airs in three episodes. The first series was quite good. It has all the ingredients of a period drama: stately manors, lavish costumes, and requisite trips to the country; inevitable questions of love and money, marriage and inheritance; and necessary to populate such a grand setting, of course, a bazillion characters. Thankfully the website has a family tree. I was starting to get them mixed up with the characters from The Way We Live Now.
In the tradition of the immersion series on different historical “houses,” of which Manor House I found really interesting and enjoyable (The 1900 House was all right, and I never did get around to watching Frontier House), the newest is Colonial House, which transports a small community back to 17th-century New England. The eight-part series airs Monday and Tuesday nights, May 17-18 and 24-25. (Thanks to Gene for the scoop.)
Looking WAY too far ahead, Channel 4 is airing Regency House now (sort of sequel to Manor House).
I love the Regency stuff… but yikes! There’s something creepy about this series. Though, on the plus side, three of the characters have Darcy-potential…