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Les Misérables from Masterpiece | MINI-SERIES

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Mon. Jun. 10. Wed. Jun. 12 at 8pm on 23.1 WKAR-HD |  Watch the complete mini-series this week, with two episodes airing each evening beginning at 8pm! Watch and call or Give Now Here for special offers!

Victor Hugo’s masterpiece comes to television in a six-part adaptation by multi award-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies. Dominic West stars as fugitive Jean Valjean, with David Oyelowo as his pursuer Inspector Javert and Lily Collins as the luckless single mother Fantine. Ellie Bamber and Josh O'Connor costar as the young lovers Cosette and Marius. Love, death, and the struggle for social justice in early 19th-century France feature in this beautifully faithful retelling of one of the world’s most beloved stories.

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