Downton Abbey – J.L. Jarvis

Downton Abbey in hot water over bottle blooper | Television & radio | theguardian.com

Costume Dramas / August 16, 2014 August 16, 2014

Downton Abbey promotional picture for fifth series, with modern bottle of water on mantelpiece. Photograph: @downtonabbey/PA

A promotional picture for the new series of Downton Abbey caused an online sensation when a sharp-eyed fan of the show noticed the very modern bottle of water on the mantelpiece behind Hugh Bonneville and Laura Carmichael.

Downton Abbey in hot water over bottle blooper | Television & radio | theguardian.com.

Tough Justice with Michelle Dockery

actors, Costume Dramas / January 9, 2014 January 24, 2014

Uncategorized / November 11, 2013 November 30, 2013

The period drama, which has yet to see its fourth-run debut stateside, will be back on PBS’ “Masterpiece Classics” in America and ITV in the U.K.

“Downton Abbey”

Downton Abbey still stands. The Emmy-winning drama from Julian Fellowes has been renewed for a fifth season — make that series, for fans in its native U.K. — and will continue to air on PBS’ Masterpiece Classics and ITV.

The period piece, which recently wrapped its fourth season in Great Britain, raking an average audience of 11.8 million viewers, won’t see its stateside return until Jan. 5. That lengthy delay has yet to dampen Downton‘s ratings momentum. The third run grossed 24 million viewers, making it PBS’ most watched drama to date.

(via ‘Downton Abbey’ Renewed for Season 5)

Downton countdown: Exciting preview from fourth series of period drama will whet fans’ appetites | Mail Online

Uncategorized / September 22, 2013 November 30, 2013

Downton countdown: Exciting preview from fourth series of period drama will whet fans’ appetites | Mail Online

Uncategorized / April 27, 2013 November 30, 2013

Just in case you missed the Downton Abbey Meets Broadway reference, this is Dame Kiri Te Kanawa singing “Beim Schlafengehen” from Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss.

3. “Beim Schlafengehen”

(“Going to sleep”) (Text: Hermann Hesse)

Now that I am wearied of the day,
my ardent desire shall happily receive
the starry night
like a sleepy child.

Hands, stop all your work.
Brow, forget all your thinking.
All my senses now
yearn to sink into slumber.

And my unfettered soul
wishes to soar up freely
into night’s magic sphere
to live there deeply and thousandfold.

Composed: August 4, 1948

Text courtesy of Wikipedia

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Uncategorized / April 24, 2013 November 30, 2013

lizzard12:

Downton Abbey meets Broadway. This is genius!

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Book reviews roundup: Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-century Britain and Heartbreak Hotel | Books | The Guardian

Uncategorized / March 23, 2013 November 30, 2013

Book reviews roundup: Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-century Britain and Heartbreak Hotel | Books | The Guardian

Lethbridge’s book charts the ‘halting escape of women from servitude’. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

“Money might not buy happiness but it certainly sponsors battiness. Waldorf Astor only liked milk from his own herd, so whenever the Astors went to Scotland, one of their cows would travel with them on the train.” Craig Brown in the Mail on Sunday praised Lucy Lethbridge’s Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-century Britain as “exhaustively researched and delightfully well-written”. “There are plenty of … tales of pointless etiquette and jaw-dropping extravagance … Up until his death in 1940, the Duke of Bedford employed 60 indoor servants just to look after him and his wife, along with eight chauffeurs.”