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With the news today that Oliver Dowden has been replaced as UK Culture Secretary by Nadine Dorries, a version of his RTS speech published early this morning was instead delivered by John Whittingdale, Minister Of State For Media And Data. Whittingdale delivered Downden’s speech, laying out the government’s reasons for…

NBCUniversal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group, and Imagine Exhibitions today announced that Downton Abbey: The Exhibition will open in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, September 25. The exhibition will be held at Perimeter Pointe in Sandy Springs for a limited engagement. Atlanta marks the…

Focus Features is shifting Downton Abbey 2 from Dec. 22 to Friday, March 18, 2022. Universal Pictures International will release internationally on the same date. The pic’s original principal cast have returned for the second film, which wraps production in August. New additions are Hugh Dancy, Laura Haddock, Nathalie…

‘Downton Abbey’ Sequel Film Edges Closer One of the worst kept secrets in the UK biz is closer to becoming a reality, as Carnival Films gears up to shoot a sequel Downton Abbey feature in the coming weeks. Hugh Bonneville told BBC Radio 2 today that planets are aligning on the second film. “There is certainly the…

EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features President Robert Walak will be stepping down from his position and moving into an advisory consulting role with the Universal specialty studio. Walak will continue to work with Focus on projects he helped shepherd into development while there, and there are no plans to replace him in the role…

"Although I had adapted other things, I had adapted other people's novels and so on, but I had never adapted my own work, so that seemed quite an original challenge," Belgravia writer and creator Julian Fellowes said of bringing his 2016 novel of British high society to the small screen. Joined by series star Tamsin…

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Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes will start working on a sequel to the ITV and PBS drama's feature film once he's finished scripting HBO drama The Gilded Age. Fellowes, speaking after his Winter TCA press tour session to promote Epix and ITV drama Belgravia, said that he is currently in pre-production for that…

They say that we live in a golden age of television — and it’s a well-worn phrase that is certainly borne out in the quality of British shows that have landed on our screens over the past 10 years. There are standout hits to choose from across genres, and the decade culminated with UK television exports exploding to a…

Lily James has said that her latest role, as Mrs. de Winter in the Netflix remake of Daphne du Maurier's classic Gothic novel Rebecca, left her with panic attacks as she struggled to extract herself from the character's "difficult headspace". "I found it really hard to let go of the character [de Winter]. She's really…

Academy Award winner and longtime stage actress Maggie Smith has taken on many fulfilling roles over the years, although she wouldn’t include her work in Downton Abbey or the Harry Potter films among them. Smith, who played schoolmistress Minerva McGonagall in the boy-wizard adventures and Dowager Countess Violet…

The Crawley family is set to take a tour through China. Downton Abbey, the film centering on the aristocratic British family, has been scheduled for release in Chinese theaters on December 13. The period drama continues the story of the Crawleys, and depicts a visit to their English country estate by the king and…