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Longtime Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! producer Rebecca Eaton will publish her memoir with Viking in October. Making Masterpiece: 25 Years Behind the Scenes of Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! on PBS will be written with Patricia Mulcahy.

Eaton has been an executive producer on Masterpiece since 1985, working on adaptations of many classic novels. Since she joined, the show has earned 44 Emmy Awards, 15 Peabody Awards, four Golden Globes, and two Academy Award nominations. Here’s more about the book from the release:

Eaton interviews actors, writers, directors and producers, and shares personal anecdotes—as well as photos from her own camera—from her decades-spanning career. She reveals what went on behind the scenes during such triumphs as Cranford and the highly rated programs made from Jane Austen’s novels, as well as her aggressive campaign to attract younger viewers via social media and online streaming. Along the way she also shares stories about luminaries such as Alistair Cooke, Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kenneth Branagh, Gillian Anderson, and Daniel Radcliffe, whose first TV role was as the title character in David Copperfield.

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Jeff Simon, book editor of The Buffalo News, made Alistair Cooke's Reporting America his "Editor's Choice" this week: "This beautifully illustrated book collects 89 letters, from first to last, whereby the soul of urbanity and intelligence tackles a world of American subjects, from the not-so-quotidian to the not-so-apocalyptic. You’ll find Cooke on everything from Humphrey Bogart, Louis Armstrong, Gary Cooper and Marilyn Monroe to Chappaquiddick, Watergate, the assassinations of JFK and John Lennon and 9/11. . . Here is one steady brilliant voice to echo, if not emulate, in the era of cable- TV’s 24-hour News Babel."

Today's is Alistair Cooke's 100th birthday! Joining The Overlook Press in New York tonight will be Susan Cooke Kittredge and John Byrne Cooke, for a special birthday reception hosted by Peter Mayer and Rebecca Eaton, Executive Producer of Masterpiece on PBS. Reporting America is a magnificent new book containing Cooke's dispatches, almost all of them uncollected, on the key moments, movements and men and women of post-war America. On sale today! And stay tuned for a full party report and pics.