South Riding premieres on UK TV

South Riding, starring Douglas Henshall, premiered this evening on BBC1 (UK)
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It will be shown later this season on Masterpiece Classic in the US, and very soon thereafter on DVD
Source: BBC America

South Riding to air on Sunday 20 February

South Riding charts the story of Sarah Burton's homecoming to Yorkshire in 1934 after twenty years teaching in London and the Empire. After a fiery interview with a conservative interview panel, outspoken Sarah takes up her first headmistress-ship at Kiplington High School for Girls, determined to demonstrate to her new pupils that the future is theirs for the taking.

Change is on her agenda straight away - of the curriculum, of teaching methods, of the rundown buildings. Her hurry to transform the South Riding brings her into immediate conflict with landowner Robert Carne, a man tragically trapped in his past, and wins her the friendship of Joe Astell (played by Douglas Henshall), a reforming socialist councillor bent on improving the lives of the Yorkshire poor by means of a spanking new housing estate to replace the rural slum known as The Shacks. As term begins, Shacks girl Lydia Holly arrives at the High School, with talent to burn and domestic circumstances that make it almost impossible for her to realise her dreams. Meanwhile, Sarah is brought closer to Carne through his highly-strung and delicate daughter, Midge.

Episode One will be broadcast on Sunday 20 February 2011 at 9 p.m. on BBC One (UK)

Source: BBC

No UK broadcast date yet for South Riding

The BBC has still to announce a broadcast date for "South Riding", starring Anna Maxwell Martin, David Morrissey and Douglas Henshall. In their "Coming Soon" section they state that it will be broadcast 'later this year'.

However, PBS has announced that the drama will be shown on Masterpiece Classics on May 1st, May 8th and May 15th 2011 at 9pm.