Each fall, Masterpiece contemporary showcases dramas set in modern times.
Last Season on Masterpiece contemporary:
The Last Enemy
Ubiquitous video cameras are the timely backdrop for a wild ride through the paranoia and politics of a surveillance society in The Last Enemy. Stephen Ezard (Benedict Cumberbatch, Atonement) returns to London to face his brother Michael's mysterious death. Soon, he finds himself stalked by rogue agent David Russell (Robert Carlyle, The Full Monty) and catapulted into the center of an international conspiracy.
God on Trial
Who is to blame for the worst of all crimes? Facing extermination at Auschwitz, prisoners weigh the case against God in God on Trial. Anthony Sher (Primo), Rupert Graves (The Forsyte Saga), Dominic Cooper (Sense and Sensibility, Mamma Mia!) and Stellan Skarsgård (The Pirates of the Caribbean, Mamma Mia!) headline the cast of believers and non believers coming to terms with faith and suffering.
Filth
Julie Walters (Mamma Mia!, Harry Potter) stars as Mary Whitehouse in the true story of a moral watchdog barking at the heels of swinging England in the 1960s. Hugh Bonneville (Five Days, Miss Austen Regrets) co-stars as the prime object of Mary's wrath: Hugh Greene, head of the BBC and a force for everything contemporary, witty and — in Mary's eyes — filthy.
The Unseen Alistair Cooke
Intimate 8mm home movies tell the story of celebrated broadcaster and longtime Masterpiece Theatre host Alistair Cooke. From 1933 onward, The Unseen Alistair Cooke charts Cooke's discovery of America, his passions and relationships with stars such as Paulette Goddard and Charlie Chaplain.
Prime Suspect 7: The Final Act
In this encore presentation of the Emmy-winning Prime Suspect 7: The Final Act, drink, loneliness, and the grueling life of a crime fighter are finally catching up with Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren). Pushing sixty and facing the death of her father, Tennison knows it is time to retire, but can she keep her body and soul together for one final case?
