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...Fellowes reaches back into a nearer past than the 1920s and recycles his Oscar-winning 2001 script for Robert Altman’s Gosford Park, Hollywood invading an English country house....
...She and Millie live together and relax by watching Downton Abbey, she said....
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...But that is essentially an argument for noblesse oblige, and if you want that, watch Downton Abbey....
...Midway through our lunch, Robert Harris lets slip that I am stepping in some pretty big footsteps. “I sat in this very pub with Boris Johnson 20 years ago,” the thriller writer says....
...Some come more in a spirit of escapism and nostalgia, for the “country-house experience” of programmes such as Downton Abbey and The Crown....
...Details Sophy Roberts stayed as a guest of The Newt in Somerset. Rooms cost from £320 a night including breakfast....
...And when Elizabeth McGovern chose a suite from our Rose Cut collection for the premiere of the Downton Abbey film, there was a significant increase in sales too.”...
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...As for Harry Potter and Downton Abbey, they deal in an Olde England of private-school whimsy and feudal class tropes....
...He has been in Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey and Absolutely Fabulous....
...Comcast pointed out that it, too, had invested in such British successes as Downton Abbey. Still, there was no requirement for Sky’s would-be overlord to retain all the below-stairs kitchen staff....
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...ITV, which airs Downton Abbey and X Factor, has been highly acquisitive in recent years, buying up TV production companies to reduce its reliance on advertising revenues....
...ITV — which airs well-known shows such as Downton Abbey, Broadchurch and The X Factor — has had its share price buoyed by speculation that it could be bought by a US broadcaster or cable network....
...Robert Brown believed that his machine would revitalise writing, making it “more optical, more eye-teasing, more eye-tasty”....
...He even worked at Highclere, future location of Downton Abbey, 240 years before Julian Fellowes surveyed the park as the setting for the television drama....
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...Yet Downton chic is infused into the growing “do-it-for-me” culture. Pilgrim Payne, upholstery cleaner to the Royal Household, offers home visits to steam pleat your curtains....
...Robert Clergerie, 180 Walton Street, London SW3 (020-7584 4995; www.robertclergerie.com)....
...Her mother still hosts tea parties and plays bridge — there is, she says, an Anglo-Argentine upper class who make Downton look progressive....
...As Downton Abbey reaches its series finale and this year’s hopefuls battle it out on X Factor, another seasonal TV event will take place: the Christmas advertisement for department store John Lewis....
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...It has been reworked by Julian Fellowes, writer of Downton Abbey, from the 1963 musical based on HG Wells’s novel Kipps....
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