New name, new host, same great programming...

A program that has been synonymous with public television for decades and a home for award-winning drama on WPT is receiving a new facade. Masterpiece Theatre has been the place to find the world's best actors interpreting some of the finest literature for more more than 35 years. Now, with its new season, the show has a new title, new formats and a new host. Gillian Anderson, who starred in the X-Files and in an Emmy-nominated role in last season's Masterpiece Theatre "Bleak House," will host the first segment of programs, which will now be called Masterpiece Classic. This series of programs will include the much-anticipated Complete Jane Austen series, as well as other period dramas.

In the summer, all of the great programs viewers used to see on Mystery! will now be found on Masterpiece Mystery! And, next fall, Masterpiece Contemporary will offer dramas from modern settings. Each of those two new parts of Masterpiece will have new hosts named at a later date.

The Complete Jane Austen can be seen at 8 p.m. Sundays, beginning Jan. 13. This coming Sunday and Monday at 8 p.m. on WPT, viewers can enjoy an encore of Helen Mirren's award-winning two-part detective drama, Prime Suspect VII: The Final Act.