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Rebecca Eaton OBE (born November 7, 1947) is an American television producer and film producer best known for introducing American audiences to British costume and countryside dramas as executive producer of the PBS Masterpiece series.
Rebecca Eaton is a producer who has worked on many PBS TV series, such as Sherlock, Downton Abbey, and Little Dorrit. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1947 and has won five Primetime Emmys.
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- Producer, Additional Crew
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Rebecca Eaton
Apr 2, 2020 · Rebecca Eaton: Susanne Simpson, the new EP of Masterpiece, and I kind of created this job, and it’s tailor-made to how we work here. My first love has always been working on the content and the scripts — and developing relationships with the writers, producers, directors and actors.
Mar 1, 2015 · Eaton is the executive producer of Masterpiece, the Sunday evening drama strand on US public service broadcasting network PBS, currently enjoying ratings unprecedented in its 44-year...
- Maggie Brown
Dec 16, 2019 · After 35 years as Executive Producer of PBS MASTERPIECE, Rebecca Eaton has a new role, and Susanne Simpson steps into her shoes. Will it affect programming?
In her three-and-a-half-hour interview, Rebecca Eaton talks about growing up in Pasadena, CA and attending Vassar College. She discusses her first job after graduation, at BBC Radio in London, and on returning to the United States to work first for Boston’s WGBH radio and then for WGBH television.
Nov 21, 2019 · As the iconic PBS drama franchise is heading into its 50th anniversary in 2021, the woman who steered it for the past 34 years, Rebecca Eaton, is taking a step back. Eaton, who has headed...
