KING CHARLES III on MASTERPIECE | Tim Pigott-Smith on His Character | PBS

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Actor Tim Pigott-Smith explores the challenges of playing "the shadow" of Prince Charles. See real life and imagined history collide in King Charles III: Sunday, May 14th, 2017 at 9/8c on MASTERPIECE on PBS. #KingCharlesPBS
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The hit Broadway show King Charles III is adapted for television. A 2016 Tony nominee for Best Play, King Charles III imagines Prince Charles’ ascension to the throne following Queen Elizabeth’s death. Lauded by the New York Times as a “flat-out brilliant portrait of a monarch in crisis,” the play was critically acclaimed in London and New York. The 90-minute adaptation stars Tim Pigott-Smith as Charles. Writer Mike Bartlett adapts from his own script — daringly written in blank verse — and Rupert Goold directs.