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HBO’s ‘Parade’s End’ keeps British TV invasion going

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Benedict Cumberbatch plays tradition-bound Christopher and Rebecca Hall is his unfaithful wife, Sylvia, in the five-part miniseries "Parade's End," debuting Tuesday, Feb. 26, on HBO.

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British playwright Tom Stoppard's latest project is a five-part miniseries, "Parade's End," premiering Tuesday, Feb. 26, on HBO.

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Benedict Cumberbatch stars in "Parade's End" on HBO.

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British playwright Tom Stoppard is the master behind "Parade's End," a five-part HBO miniseries (airing at 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, Feb. 26-28) that was lauded by U.K. critics as "the thinking man's Downton Abbey'" after its BBC airing. Adapted by Stoppard from a series of novels by British writer Ford Madox Ford, "Parade's End" features rising stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall in the juiciest of roles. Like PBS' "Downton Abbey," it's set in the early 20th century among aristocrats and encompasses World War I's shattering effect on the social order.