Julian Fellowes
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Clodagh McKenna: ‘Me and Harry have a drink every day. I don’t care. It’s lockdown’
- Food & Drink
- November 6, 2020, 06:10
The Irish-born chef and writer talks about her life with Harry Herbert, plans for the future and her new book of quick, weeknight suppers If the(...)

TV for cocooners: 20 high-quality, old-school series to stream
- TV, Radio, Web
- April 30, 2020, 06:00
You will be coming down with suggestions as to which hip series and zippy films are currently available to the broadband user. When stressfully isolat(...)

‘We’ll never see a pandemic in our lifetime, or my name isn’t Lord Clarence Imminent-Comeuppance’
- Culture
- March 20, 2020, 05:00
When a woman in the 19th century, which is in the olden days, paraphrases a line written by LP Hartley in the 1950s, which is also the olden days, you(...)

Belgravia review: Like Downton Abbey with knobs on
- TV, Radio, Web
- March 15, 2020, 22:00
The greatest trick writer Julian Fellowes ever pulled was convincing the world Downton Abbey was high-class drama. What it actually was, of course, wa(...)

Patrick Freyne: The best of TV in 2019 and what to watch this year
- Culture
- January 3, 2020, 05:00
In the olden days, people worried about young people watching too much television. Now that we’re all addicted to status updates and online fascism, w(...)

Elizabeth McGovern: A lifetime of living and acting with alpha males
- Film
- September 14, 2019, 05:00
The British period drama Downton Abbey launched in a nice teatime telly slot on ITV in 2010, looking decidedly out of place on a medium then defined b(...)

Downton Abbey: Chaos, charm and an orgy of happy endings
- Film
- September 10, 2019
Allow me a moment of TV archaeology. Close to 50 years ago, Upstairs Downstairs, the unmistakable forerunner to Downton Abbey, almost shook apart over(...)

Downton Abbey TV series to be turned into a movie
- Film
- July 13, 2018, 17:16
A big screen transfer for Downton Abbey has been rumoured for almost as long as the hit show ran on television. But on Friday the movie was confirmed,(...)

“I didn’t know this was going to be . . . In the Psychiatrist’s Chair,” Rupert Everett says with the slightest of flinches. He doesn’t clam up. He doe(...)

Eddie Izzard: I like to think I kicked the trans door open
- Film
- September 15, 2017
Where do you start with Eddie Izzard? The first activity mentioned in any potted biography will still be “stand-up comedy”. In the early 1990s he gain(...)