Bibliograph

Howards End, a Playground production for BBC and StarzOriginals in association with City Entertainment and Kippster Entertainment ; written for television by Kenneth Lonergan ; director, Hettie MacDonald ; producer, Laura Hastings-Smith ; executive producers, Sophie Gardiner, Scott Huff, Joshua D. Maurer, Alixandre Witlin, David A. Stern, Colin Callender

Type

Label

Howards End, a Playground production for BBC and StarzOriginals in association with City Entertainment and Kippster Entertainment ; written for television by Kenneth Lonergan ; director, Hettie MacDonald ; producer, Laura Hastings-Smith ; executive producers, Sophie Gardiner, Scott Huff, Joshua D. Maurer, Alixandre Witlin, David A. Stern, Colin Callender

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Rating: TV-14

Main title

Howards End

Oclc number

1129548113

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Originally broadcast on BBC One as a television mini-series in 2017; later broadcast on Starz television in 2018; later broadcast on PBS television in 2020 as episodes of the series "Masterpiece."

Responsibility statement

a Playground production for BBC and StarzOriginals in association with City Entertainment and Kippster Entertainment ; written for television by Kenneth Lonergan ; director, Hettie MacDonald ; producer, Laura Hastings-Smith ; executive producers, Sophie Gardiner, Scott Huff, Joshua D. Maurer, Alixandre Witlin, David A. Stern, Colin Callender

Runtime

228

Summary

The show follows Margaret and Helen Schlegel, two intelligent, idealistic sisters living together in Edwardian London with their hypochondriac brother, Tibby. Their loving but interfering Aunt Juley tries to keep the siblings in line after the death of their parents, but a series of events push the sisters to lead unorthodox lives full of romance, tragedy, and drama"The story of two independent and unconventional sisters and the men in their lives seeking love and meaning as they navigate an every-changing world. ... Margaret Schlegel is an intelligent, idealistic young woman who is courted by the older Henry Wilcox, a self-made conservative businessman, after his wife Ruth Wilcox dies unexpectedly and he becomes owner of Howards End. Meanwhile Margaret's passionate and capricious younger sister Helen Schlegel takes up the cause of Leonard Bast, a young bank clerk who falls on hard times at work and at home with his partner Jacky. In the absence of their late parents, the sisters' loving but interfering Aunt Juley tries to keep the young ladies and their brother Tibby on the straight and narrow."--, Container

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action