As the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912 approaches, televisions offerings are dominated by nonfiction programming with only a smattering of dramatized offerings.
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Director James Cameron will make a small screen offering aside from the epic re-release of Titanic 3D in theatres. Cameron shares the knowledge he has learned since making the film and after having done more than 30 dives to the its deep sea resting place for National Geographic Channels Titanic: The Final Word.
Another interesting, and totally unexpected, entry into the Titanic-related TV offerings features Dancing With the Stars judge Len Goodman. He shares a personal connection to the ship via his previous experience working at the Ireland shipyard where it was built on a Smithsonian Channel program.
ABC breaks through the event's nonfiction programming with its four-part dramatic miniseries, Titanic, which was written by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes.
Take a look at The Live Feeds Titanic TV watch list below.
Dramatizations:
Saving the Titanic,Check local listings, PBS
Based on eyewitness accounts, the drama of this program unfolds in the engine and boiler rooms after the ship makes its fatal crash into an iceberg. David Wilmot (The Tudors) and Ciaran McMenamin (Primeval) lead the ensemble cast.
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Titanic, Monday, Saturday, April 14 at 8 p.m., April 19 at 9 p.m., ABC
ABCs four-hour miniseries from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes and BAFTA-winning producer Nigel Stafford Clark (Bleak House) tracks the doomed voyage from the different perspectives of its crew and passengers. Their stories will meet in the dramatic last hour. It stars Linus Roache (Law & Order), Geraldine Somerville (Harry Potter), Perdita Weeks (The Tudors), and many others.
A Night to Remember, Saturday, April 14 at 10 p.m., Turner Classic Movies
The 1958 film is based onWalter Lords1955 nonfiction book, which is still considered one of the most definitive sources about the sinking. Like the book, Titanic researchers felt the film was a very close depiction of what was known about the accident at the time. Told from the point of view of its passengers from survivors accounts of the event, it does focus on the ships second officer, Charles Lightoller (Kenneth More).
Nonfiction:
The Titanic with Len Goodman, Check local listings, PBS
In a former life well call the 60s, the Dancing With the Stars judge used his jazz hands for heavy metal as a welder at the Ireland shipyard where the Titanic was built. Goodman takes that connection further to provide the personal stories from some of the men who helped build the ship and then went down with it.
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The Real Story: Titanic, Thursday at 7 p.m., Smithsonian
This episode of the series would probably make Cameron peeved. It sets out to punch holes in the directors fictionalized 1997 movie, which at the time was considered a work of great detail and accuracy. But, its producers say that modern technology and new theories tell a different story. This may be something Cameron has already realized, see Titanic: The Final Word With James Cameron.
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