ITV has officially announced today that Season 6 of Downton Abbey will be the show’s final season. The last ever episode will air on Christmas Day on ITV, following eight episodes this autumn. Writer Julian Fellowes commented: “The Downton journey has been amazing for everyone aboard. People ask if we knew what was going to … >
Further cast additions have been revealed for BBC One’s new adaptation of War and Peace. Adapted from Leo Tolstoy’s literary masterpiece by Mr Selfridge writer Andrew Davies, the six one-hour episodes will “bring the classic to life for a modern audience on a truly epic scale”. Jim Broadbent (Harry Potter) will appear as Prince Bolkonsky, … >
This year’s feature-length festive special is brimming with the things we love: sumptuous dinner parties, carols by the Christmas tree in the great hall, and happily-resolved plot lines. Not a single dead body anywhere. The episode opens with the Downton crowd preparing to attend a grouse-shooting party at Brancaster Castle. Lord Sinderby has rented it … >
Downton Abbey returns to ITV this autumn for a fifth season. The period drama is back for eight new episodes and a Christmas special, guest starring Richard E Grant, Anna Chancellor, Rade Sherbedgia, Dame Harriet Walter, Peter Egan and Sue Johnston. Returning cast members include Dame Maggie Smith, Michelle Dockery, Jim Carter, Hugh Bonneville, Joanne … >
The cast has been revealed for BBC One’s epic new adaptation of War And Peace. Adapted from Leo Tolstoy’s literary masterpiece by Mr Selfridge writer Andrew Davies, the six one-hour episodes will star James Norton (Grantchester), Paul Dano (12 Years A Slave) and Lily James (Downton Abbey). Directed by Tom Harper (Peaky Blinders), War and … >
Downton Abbey returns next month for the period drama’s traditional festive special. Exact plot details are being kept under wraps until Christmas day (and we all know what that meant for poor Matthew a couple of years ago), but here’s what we know so far… The episode will run for a feature-length two hours. … >
ITV has released a new promotional photo for this year’s Downton Abbey Christmas special. Filmed at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, the two-hour episode rejoins the family in the early autumn of 1924 and sees New Tricks star Alun Armstrong join the cast as Stowell, the Sinderbys’ butler. Jane Lapotaire (Blind Justice) also joins as Princess … >
The first trailer has been released for Disney’s new live-action adaptation of Cinderella, starring Downton Abbey‘s Lily James. Directed by Kenneth Branagh (Thor), the movie also stars Helena Bonham Carter, Cate Blanchett and Game of Thrones actor Richard Madden. Cinderella will be released in UK cinemas on 27 March 2015. Watch the trailer… The story of Cinderella … >
Downton Abbey served up yet another delicious season, full of wit and charm, intrigue and insight, with a second helping of memorable one-liners from the Dowager Countess. Best of all, there was an explosive dining room scene in almost every episode. > Order Season 5 on DVD on Amazon. With the Downton residents not returning … >
The season finale opens to sunny skies over Downton as everyone above and below stairs prepares for the wedding of Lady Rose and Atticus Aldridge. Lady Rose is showing off her trousseau to the women (sans her chronically unhappy mother, Susan Flintshire), Donk is playing board games on the floor with granddaughter Sybbie, and Mr. … >