More changes are on the way: a celebrity composer-in-residence, a contemporary series, and, in 2009, a new chief conductor, the musically assured, intellectually questing Alan Gilbert.
"She has reinvented family drama in Doctor Who, Robin Hood and Merlin and launched acclaimed contemporary series such as Spooks and Life on Mars as well as Cranford.
How do you introduce Shakespeare into a contemporary series? A. It's probably the thing that I'm most unsure about, to be quite honest.
She joined the BBC script unit in 1990 and went on to become a script editor and then a producer in the BBC TV drama department, developing both classic and contemporary series and dramas.
CBS, Oct. 3 at 9. THE LAST ENEMY A "Masterpiece Contemporary" series, this is really a futuristic tale of a Britain devastated by terrorism, which turns to draconian security measures.
While the network has not determined if it will add census plots to any other telenovelas, Mr. Browne said that another contemporary series was in the works that would "lend itself to this".
In addition, there were offbeat musical events at the River to River Festival, a parade of significant pianists at the International Keyboard Institute and Festival at Mannes College (Alessio Bax contributed to the Beethoven boomlet with a formidable and sensitive rendition of the "Hammerklavier" Sonata), and Joel Sachs's Summergarden contemporary series at MOMA.
This June, the Philharmonic waxed modern all month long: on the 8th and 9th, David Robertson led a pair of concerts in the orchestra's contemporary series, "CONTACT!" — Michael Jarrell's multilingual song cycle "NACHLESE Vb: Liederzyklus" was the standout — and on the 26th, there was a one-night celebration of the venerable French composer Henri Dutilleux.
In the midst of the Andriessen festivities, the New York Philharmonic presented the second concert in its fitful new contemporary series, "CONTACT!" Alan Gilbert conducted new works by Sean Shepherd and Nico Muhly, who both studied at Juilliard in the early aughts, and one by Matthias Pintscher, a rising star of German music who has lately migrated to New York.
