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LOS ANGELES Acclaimed actress Glenda Jackson will launch the 50th season of PBS Masterpiece drama showcase next year.
The film Elizabeth is Missing, with Jackson as a woman in search of a vanished friend even as she copes with dementia, will air Jan. 3. It’s based on the Emma Healey novel of the same name.
Jackson, 84, is a two-time Oscar winner, for Women in Love and A Touch of Class.”
Masterpiece, from WGBH Boston and among TVs longest-running weekly prime-time series, has been home to award-winning shows including Downton Abbey and Sherlock.
The anniversary season also will include All Creatures Great and Small, a new seven-part series based on James Herriots books about his adventures as a veterinarian in 1930s England.
The series is set for a January debut. A 1970s adaptation of Herriots work was a public TV hit.
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