Secrets, blackmail, gossip, sex scandals, mysterious deaths, rivalry and scheming mark PBS’s latest period costume drama mini-series, “Downton Abbey”. At times, the show has as much in common with a prime-time soap as it does with an Austen adaptation -- though it still features the requisite talk about marriage, property and class.
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Hoping to prove that neither England nor PBS have a monopoly on wealthy people in corsets embroiled in soap opera scandals, NBC has drafted Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes to recreate that sort of heightened costume drama Stat... Read Post
A British period soap opera about the masters and servants at an English country estate circa World War I: It may not sound like the buzziest, most addictive TV show to premiere since Mad Men, but that's exactly what Downton Abbey i... Read Post
Downton Abbey, the British soap opera about the upstairs-downstairs entanglements of masters and servants at an English countryside great house during World War I, has been an unlikely runaway hit for PBS, which airs the period dram... Read Post