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Downton Abbey

Duration:
65 min (2 episodes, excluding commercials) | 48 min (5 episodes, excluding commercials)
Genres:
Drama
IMDB rate:
8.8
Awards:
Won 3 Golden Globes. Another 42 wins & 149 nominations
Details
Country: UK
Filming Locations: The Charterhouse, Charterhouse Square, London, England, UK
Cast
Actor
Character
Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant
Downton Abbey
Jeremy Swift
Jeremy Swift
Downton Abbey
Andrew Westfield
Andrew Westfield
Downton Abbey
MyAnna Buring
MyAnna Buring
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Tom Cullen
Tom Cullen
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Hugh Bonneville
Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham
Laura Carmichael
Lady Edith Crawley
Jim Carter
Charles Carson
Brendan Coyle
John Bates
Michelle Dockery
Lady Mary Crawley
Joanne Froggatt
Anna Bates
Rob James-Collier
Thomas Barrow
Phyllis Logan
Mrs. Hughes
Elizabeth McGovern
Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham
Sophie McShera
Daisy Mason
Lesley Nicol
Mrs. Patmore
Maggie Smith
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham
Penelope Wilton
Isobel Crawley
Allen Leech
Tom Branson
Kevin Doyle
Joseph Molesley
David Robb
Dr. Clarkson
Siobhan Finneran
Sarah O'Brien
Dan Stevens
Matthew Crawley
Jessica Brown Findlay
Lady Sybil Crawley
Lily James
Lady Rose MacClare
Did you know?
Trivia
David Weston was seen for the role of Charles Grigg but thought too old.
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In 2012, it became the most nominated British TV series in the history of the Emmys, with 16 Emmy nominations at The 64th Primetime Emmy Awards (2012).
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Julian Fellowes admitted in an interview that he didn't know about Dan Stevens' intentions to leave the show until it was too late into the Mary/Matthew storyline, so the only option he had was to kill him to write him out of the show.
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Goofs
Although Robert and Cora Crawley both have blue eyes, their daughter, Mary, has brown eyes. This was thought biologically impossible in the Davenport Model (1907), although not very common, two blue-eyed parents can produce children with brown eyes. Eye color is a complex trait that depends on the state of several interacting genes. The gene that usually decides the issue (blue eyes or brown eyes) is the OCA2 gene on chromosome 15. But it comes in different strengths. A person with a weak form of the OCA2 gene will have blue eyes. Likewise a person with a strong form will have brown eyes, but individuals also have other eye-color genes that each has a say in the final eye-color outcome. For example, if one of these lesser genes is strong, it can make the weak form (blue) of OCA2 work much more effectively - almost like the strong form (brown). Then the eye color may be brown. In fact, the resulting color can be any shade of brown, hazel, green or blue depending on the interactions.
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Faq
Q
What is the difference between the US and UK broadcasts of Downton Abbey?
A
In the UK, Downton Abbey airs on a commercial network, ITV, and therefore has commercial breaks built into it. In the U.S., it's shown on a noncommercial network, PBS, which has underwriting credits and other network material before and after the episode, but no interruptions during it.For the PBS airings, the series is edited (by the production company) into fewer--but longer--episodes than are aired in the UK. For season 1, PBS requested cuts of about 25 minutes total to fit the episodes into certain timeslots. (A wildly inaccurate article in the UK's Daily Mail newspaper claimed that some two hours of content had been removed.) However, the season 1 DVDs sold by PBS and other U.S. outlets contained the unedited UK version of the show.Because of viewer criticism, subsequent seasons on PBS have aired intact, only being restructured into fewer episodes as mentioned previously. PBS has used timeslots ranging from 60-120 minutes to accommodate the series.
Q
How does the Dowager Countess not know what "weekend" means?
A
The term was originally used only in Northern England, meaning the period from Saturday noon to Monday morning, and was not in wide use until the late 19th century. The notion of people working for only 5 or 5 1/2 days in a week would not be familiar to the Dowager Countess, who is accustomed to the countryside and great houses, where people worked 6 or 7 days a week.Edit: It could also be that neither the dowager, nor anyone she'd socialize with, has ever worked at all. Therefore it wouldn't occur to her that there are "workdays" and "non-workdays." In her life, a Saturday would be no different from a Tuesday. (A Sunday would, but only by religious custom.) When Matthew mentions the weekend, it only underscores that until now he's been a middle class lawyer in a very different circle.
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What is an entail?
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Refer to this page for information: http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-entail-in-downton-abbey-and-more/In addition the episodes state that Robert's father required the fortune of Robert's wife Cora be tied to the estate and therefore the entail. In essence, saying that Cora's money becomes the property of Robert's heir. Since Robert had no sons, the rules of male primogeniture state that the closest living male heir becomes the inheritor of the entailed estate. This is why Cousin Violet, the Dowager Countess of Grantham attempted to challenge the entail, so that they would not be penniless if the heir decided to evict the daughters from Downton Abbey when Robert passed away.
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Photos from cast
Richard E. Grant Timothy Carlton Matthew Goode Jeremy Swift Andrew Westfield MyAnna Buring Tom Cullen Rosie Jones
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