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The Emmy Award-winning producer of PBS's Masterpiece Theater and Enigma! discloses the secrets to Downton Abbey, Sherlock, and its own other hit programs. For more than 25 years and counting, Rebecca Eatonhas presided over PBS's Masterpiece Theater, the longest-running regular prime-time play series in American history. In the runaway visits Upstairs, Downstairs and The Buccaneers to the hugely popular Inspector Morse, Perfect Suspect, and Poirot, Masterpiece Theater and its own sibling series Enigma! have been required looking at for followers of quality play. Eaton interviews many of the writers, directors, manufacturers, and other contributors and stocks personal anecdotes about her decades-long job. She discloses what went on behind the displays during such triumphs as Cranfordand the multiple, highly rated programs made from Jane Austen's books, as well as her competitive campaign to draw in younger visitors via social multimedia and online loading. Along the way she shares experiences about stars and other luminaries such as Alistair Cooke, Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Daniel Radcliffe, whose first tv role was as the title personality in David Copperfield. Listeners will also become familiar with Eaton on a personal level. Which has a childhood steeped in theater, an affinity for 19th-century books and culture, and an "accidental apprenticeship" with the BBC, Eaton was basically blessed to lead the Masterpiece and Enigma! franchises. Making Masterpiece grades the very first time the driving push behind the long lasting flagship show discloses all.
