Written by the creator of Downton Abbey, this gripping new dramatization of the Titanic’s sinking uses the doomed liner as a prism through which to observe a rigid class system in decline. Julian Fellowes’s approach fractures the story; his telling jumps back and forth in time and interweaves multiple plotlines across the series’s four parts and two nights. Though Fellowes hasn’t followed James Cameron’s Oscar-winning blueprint and put a single romance at the drama’s center, the stories he chooses to tell are equally poignant. Saturday, April 14, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, April 15, at 9 p.m., ABC
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