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The glorious experience of being whisked to the English countryside, watching some fancy people bicker about place settings, and then crying for 40 straight minutes.
Creator Julian Fellowes takes us inside the new film, the show’s popularity, and why, “in such disturbed times,” we crave the simple pleasures of “Downton.”
<p>Prepare the cucumber sandwiches. The sixth and final season of <i>Downton Abbey</i> begins Sunday, with personal and romantic travails anew for the Granthams and their servants.</p>
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Whatever else we can expect from the final season of the hit period soap opera, expect Julian Fellowes’s honeyed view of the past and social order to stay intact.
Ed Westwick, who played the infamous Chuck Bass in Gossip Girl, talks to Erin Cunningham about his role as Tybalt in the new Romeo & Juliet film.
<p>Of course the U.K. might be fascinated with its faded imperial past, but why would the egalitarian U.S. lap up the pedigreed drama of ‘Downton Abbey’? An interview at London’s National Gallery with creators Julian Fellowes and Gareth Neame, sponsored by Credit Suisse and moderated by Newsweek <i></i> and The Daily Beast editor in chief Tina Brown, went some way to explaining the show’s trans-Atlantic success.</p>
<p>Can 'Downton' topple 'Mad Men<i>'</i> at the Emmys later this month? <i>Jace Lacob</i> talks to creator Julian Fellowes, as well as actors Hugh Bonneville, Brendan Coyle, Michelle Dockery, and others about Season 2, WWI, and the show’s 16 Emmy nominations. Part 2, in which Fellowes and the cast discuss details about Season 3 of 'Downton Abbey,' which launches on Sunday in the U.K., can be read <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/12/downton-abbey-season-3-julian-fellowes-hugh-bonneville-michelle-dockery-and-more.html">here</a>.</p>
Julian Fellowes singlehandedly hooked a generation of Brits on early-20th-century upper-crust drama.
The creator and cast of Emmy-nominated period drama "Downton Abbey" talk to Jace Lacob about season two.
Molly Guinness has tea with Oscar-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes to talk about his new book, Past Imperfect, and London’s fading high society.
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