The content here is free if you are a current PBS donor (at $60/year or $5/month levels, typically, though levels vary by location). Route 2) If all of that sounds too pricey or complicated, you can instead download the PBS Passport app. And/or, you can choose to pay for the Britbox add-on (additional $6.99/month) for access to still another great list of BBC shows. You can also choose to pay for the PBS Masterpiece add-on via Amazon Prime (additional $5.99/month), which gives you another host of great options. Route 1) If you are an Amazon Prime subscriber, there are a lot of great series already included in your Prime Membership.

However, there are two routes you can take to watch the bulk of the best that Masterpiece has to offer.

Thankfully, now, it’s just Masterpiece.īut like so much in the streaming world, just because we once saw these shows on PBS doesn’t mean you can find them there today (RIP forever the OG Anne of Green Gables miniseries).

Those have, over the years, mostly been part of Masterpiece Theater, Masterpiece Classic, Masterpiece Mystery, and Masterpiece Contemporary. Yes, PBS has given us many treasures over the last 50 (yes, 50! years!) like Frontline, NOVA, Sesame Street, The Joy of Painting and Arthur, but it’s also full of great UK period pieces and crime series. Despite the best efforts of Captain Brown, the railway has stopped five miles outside town, but life never stands still for long and Cranford is about to change in some unexpected ways.When most of us think of PBS series, our minds go to what is actually under the Masterpiece banner. Miss Matty’s brother, Peter is back from India and Martha’s baby Tilly marks a new addition to the household Lady Ludlow awaits the return of her son, and wealthy widower, Mr Buxton, is back in town with his ward, Erminia and his handsome son, William. This two-part feature re-unites the Amazons of Cranford: Miss Pole, Mrs Forrester, Miss Tomkinson and Mrs Jamieson (with her sister-in-law, Lady Glenmire).

But nothing reverberates like the news that could change the town forever: a railway line from Manchester is coming to Cranford…ġ844. New arrivals, social events and scandalous secrets are all discussed and judged. For spinsters Deborah Jenkyns, the arbiter of correctness, and Matty, her demurring sister, the town is a hub of intrigue where everyone talks, and is talked about. Cranford is a market town in the North West of England, where it seems that life has always been conducted according to the social rules of an intricate network of ladies.

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