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Monday, January 31, 2011

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ITV1 has commissioned a second series of the costume drama Downton Abbey after it proved a hit with viewers and critics. The Sunday-night drama was written and created by the Oscar-winning Julian Fellowes, and stars Dame Maggie Smith and Hugh Bonneville.

The drama also broke the record for a single episode viewing on itv.com’s catchup service, the ITV Player.

“Consequently, we’re thrilled to be announcing the recommission of a new series for 2011, which will allow us to spend more time with the Crawley family and their servants.”

The Writing Will Be Better. Julian Fellowes is a terrific writer and his historical knowledge and nuanced eye make Downton Abbey a brilliant evocation of an Edwardian life of privilege. And, as absolutely everything improves with practice and revision, the writing will be even better in the second series: The first time he wrote Gosford Park, it was Gosford Park, which was quite good.

Series two can repeat this by killing off the current heir to Downton Abbey in the sinking of the Lusitania, and then we can begin the search for an heir all over again. Only this time we might get one with a chin and a personality.

The Limp. One of the dominant storylines of series one has been Bates’ limp. The consternation that it has caused has resonated throughout the series with many repercussions for both the house’s residents and staff.

Though she probably already knows who the Kaiser is, “Rum fellow, typical foreign-type, no notion of how to dress for luncheon and abominable taste in hats.” The moment she exclaims, “A zeppelin has bombed Hull? What is this Hull of which you speak?” will be priceless.

Any manner of earth-shattering things could occur. Women may have to take on some of the tasks usually performed by the menfolk. The scope for revolutionary gender-role reassignment is immense. Perhaps they’ll find themselves selecting cufflinks, removing lint from a man’s jacket or winding up a clock. A maid might open the front door! Anarchy.

Order. The version of pastoral care the paternal Earl metes out to his wards will be tested to the limit in series two, as the poverty and lack of privation that war brings begins to impinge on life at Downton. How will he dispense justice when the newly widowed ladies-maid’s kitchen-maid’s undermaid is caught pilfering part of a silver cruet set?

Instead of being wooed by a succession of avaricious dullards in black tie, she’ll be wooed by a succession of avaricious dullards dressed in khaki. And that will wholly justify paying the licence fee for a colour television. We can’t wait.

I am also pleased to hear that this will just be the first season of the show, with more to come..yummy..I thought it was just a mini series as we usually get in period dramas. I can’t wait to watch the rest! I just wish KCET and PBS would work out their differences so we can see it through KCET. They have the best feed in LA..the outer lying cities don’t seem to come in as clear.

So popular in the U.K. that “Vanity Fair’s” Graydon Carter felt obligated to mention a local run on velvet jackets in a recent editor’s note, “Downton Abbey” is all that “Upstairs, Downstairs” was, and more.

Writer Julian Fellowes takes the universal themes of love, betrayal, domestic politics and the vagaries of power that he used so effectively in “Gosford Park” and hangs them on a crumbling precipice of change. As with ” Mad Men,” the characters in “Downton Abbey” face the tail-end of an era; women’s suffrage, the rise of socialism, and the imperturbable march of technology all threaten to upend the system of class and manners that protected and calcified Downton and its inhabitants for years.

Like “The King’s Speech,” which depicts another family on a similar brink, “Downton Abbey” makes it clear that those who exist in the higher realms of the food chain could not survive a day without the proletariat, but it also acknowledges, albeit wistfully, that in many cases the benefits were mutual.

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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.

“Downton Abbey” is an original drama penned by “Gosford Park” and “The Young Victoria” scribe Julian Fellowes and set in the titular Edwardian manor house. The show covers the lives of the aristocratic family “upstairs” and all their servants “downstairs,” who have their own histories and agendas, and who can sway the fate of the wealthy folks above them.

The formula of fast-paced plotting meets classic costume-drama tropes seems to have worked. In the UK, “Downton” aired on ITV and was the network’s most popular drama since 1981’s “Brideshead Revisted.” Early figures stateside, according to ITV, make “Downton” one of Masterpiece’s biggest successes as well. Indeed, while “Downton” initially hooked me in with its twists and cliffhangers, the flawed and fascinating characters have grown more human over the course of a few episodes–and now I’m quite desperate to find out what their fates are for more than curiosity’s sake.

At the center of the all the intrigue is the future of Downton Abbey itself, which by British law must be left to the next male heir, an unfortunate fellow who we learn has drowned in the Titanic in the first episode. The next in line, a middle-class lawyer named Matthew, arrives in the neighborhood determined not to be turned into a snob just because of his new position in life. Meanwhile, the women of the family, led by the formidable Dowager Countess (played to perfection by Maggie Smith), and the headstrong eldest daughter Mary, are equally determined not to be swayed by Matthew. Mary refuses to consider a match with the new heir (which would have allowed her to keep her the family estate and fortune) while she flirts dangerously with the charming son of a Turkish ambassador. The Countess, meanwhile, repeatedly butts heads with Matthew’s mother, a former nurse, who has “reforming inclinations.” All these currents pass back and forth while Mary’s jealous younger sister Edith tries to sabotage her sister’s marital prospects and the youngest sister, Sybil, begins to wear bloomers, sneak the maids away to interviews for secretarial positions, and talk radical politics with a socialist Irish chauffeur.

Downstairs, the noble valet Mr. Bates and the equally noble housemaid Anna have fallen for each other, but he tells her he’s “not a free man.” And the deliciously wicked pair of servants Thomas (who is secretly gay) and O’Brien are desperate to destroy Bates and whoever else crosses them — and they’re stealing wine to boot. All the jockeying for power and inheritance grows even more serious with a shady death in the house, past scandals coming to light, and the steady intrusion of the outside world onto the old-fashioned, corsets and brandy set at Downton. As the series has progressed, Mary has softened towards her middle-class cousin just as he has grown more comfortable being heir — but her pride and rivalry with her sister may prevent her from recognizing her true feelings.

As we approach the finale, which PBS will air tonight at 9 p.m., there are so many plot strings left hanging it will be hard to resolve them all in a mere 90 minutes. The biggest questions lingering downstairs are the resolution of the Bates-Anna romance and the schemes against them by their jealous fellow servants O’Brien and Thomas. Upstairs, Mary’s feelings for Matthew, her sister Edith’s machinations to smear her reputation, and Sybil’s growing interest in politics are the unknowns waiting for a resolution. Since there’s another season of “Downton” headed our way (it enters production this spring), my guess is not everything will be tied up neatly. But the sub-plot I’d most like to see end satisfactorily is the sweet romance between the servants Bates and Anna. These two are so loyal and so loving in a show filled with so much manipulation and deceit — don’t they at least deserve a happy ending?

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