For a nonprofit enterprise, PBS has an unexpected fascination with the retail business in the 19th and early 20th century. First, it was “Mr. Selfridge,” about a department-store visionary ...

For a nonprofit enterprise, PBS has an unexpected fascination with the retail business in the 19th and early 20th century. First, it was “Mr. Selfridge,” about a department-store visionary ...

Those have, over the years, mostly been part of Masterpiece Theater, Masterpiece Classic, Masterpiece Mystery, and Masterpiece Contemporary. Thankfully, now, it’s just Masterpiece .

The least compelling thing about “Tom Jones: Masterpiece” is Tom Jones himself. When the four-part miniseries debuts on April 30, it transforms Henry Fielding’s 800-plus page picaresque ...

Now, it’s a seven-part “Masterpiece Classic” series, “The Paradise,” adapted from an Emile Zola novel (and relocated from Paris to the U.K.). Impeccably cast, extremely handsome ...