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Why Did the New ‘Downton Abbey’ Movie Make Me Cry So Much?

The Daily Beast’s Obsessed

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.

Kevin Fallon | Published May 20, 2022

Yes, the ‘Downton Abbey’ Movie Really Is Important Right Now

ROYAL AFFAIR

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.”

Kevin Fallon | Published Sep 18, 2019

This Is What Should Happen in ‘Downton’

IT’S BACK, M’LUD

<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>

Tim Teeman | Published Jan 01, 2016

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How to End ‘Downton Abbey’

GOODBYE

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.

Tim Teeman | Published Mar 26, 2015

Life After Gossip Girl

XOXO

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.

Erin Cunningham | Published Oct 11, 2013

Our Strange ‘Downton’ Addiction

CREATORS DISH

<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>

Peter Jukes | Published Oct 01, 2012

‘Downton Abbey’s’ Emmy Bid

Abbey’s Road

<p>Can 'Downton'&nbsp;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,'&nbsp;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>

Jace Lacob | Published Sep 11, 2012

Behind the U.K.'s Smash

British Invasion!

Julian Fellowes singlehandedly hooked a generation of Brits on early-20th-century upper-crust drama.

William Underhill | Published Sep 18, 2011

Brits' Surprising Emmy Hit

TV Royalty

The creator and cast of Emmy-nominated period drama "Downton Abbey" talk to Jace Lacob about season two.

Jace Lacob | Published Aug 29, 2011

London's Swinging ’60s Revisited

Molly Guinness has tea with Oscar-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes to talk about his new book, Past Imperfect, and London’s fading high society.

Molly Guinness | Published Sep 22, 2009

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