Downton Abbey, Season 3 Preview Screening
SNEAK PREVIEW SCREENING OF DOWNTON ABBEY, SEASON 3 AT WTCI-PBS EVENT
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – December 23, 2012 – Academy Award-winner Shirley MacLaine joins the all-star cast of the PBS MASTERPIECE drama series Downton Abbey, Season 3 beginning January 6, 2013. WTCI-PBS friends and supporters are invited to the studio for premiere screenings and community engagement events on Thursday, January 3, 2013.
WTCI-PBS will host a fundraising event, "A Bridal Dessert Tea for Lady Mary" that will be followed by a free screening of Downton Abbey, Season 3 and will feature a dessert tea with champagne cocktails. The afternoon event begins at 1:00 pm, seating is limited and registration is required. Guests are invited to join staff in donning period attire, hats or gloves to honor Lady Mary Josephine Crawley's upcoming wedding. Online registration is available here.
A 5:30 pm reception with wine, beer and hors d'oeuvres will be followed by a free screening of the first sixty minutes of Downton Abbey, Season 3. Seating is limited for this event and registration is required. Guests are invited to don period attire in honor of Lady Mary Josephine Crawley. Online registration is available here.
Written and created by Jullian Fellows, Downton Abbey is a Carnival Films and MASTERPIECE coproduction that won 6 Primetime Emmy Awards in its first season. Hailed by the Hollywood Reporter as "one of the great melodramas of the modern television age" Downton Abbey, Season 2 had a remarkable 17.1 million viewers and was acclaimed as the most-watched MASTERPIECE series on record.
Rebecca Eaton, MASTERPIECE producer, was recently interviewed on WTCI's The A List with Alison Lebovitz and says "long-form episodic drama is the ideal for the way people watch television today. With time-shifting, DVD's, and streaming, viewers have rediscovered the joys of luxuriating in a sweeping story."
WTCI-PBS is Chattanooga’s PBS station, enriching lives in a 35-county area through quality, safe programming, services and community engagement activities that educate, engage and inspire a lifetime of learning and exploration. Please visit www.wtcitv.org, jcrutchfield@wtcitv.org or 423-702-7815 for event and station information.
Registration is required for all of these events. Please click below to register for each event.
5:30 PM Reception followed by FREE 1-hour screening.
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