Downton Abbey Movie Screening with the Cast
In the midst of its box office-busting opening weekend, key members of the cast of the Downton Abbey movie took the stage after an American Cinematheque screening at Santa Monica’s historic Aero Theater. The film picks up about 18 months after the television series ended in 2016. It’s 1927 and the residents of Downton have just learned that England’s King George V and Queen Mary are coming to visit. The household staff gets turned...
Downton Abbey Cast Says Farewell to the Hit PBS Series
The mood in the Beverly Hilton’s International Ballroom was bittersweet as the producers and key cast members of “Downton Abbey” took the stage over the weekend for what was to be their last time at the Television Critics Association summer confab. Series 6, as they call it in the UK, will finish taping on August 15, and the smash-hit period drama will air in the US beginning January 3, 2016 on PBS Masterpiece. It’s difficult...
A Sneak Peek Inside the Season 4 Doors of Downton Abbey: Mary Has Multiple Love Interests
Don’t read any further if you want to avoid any spoilers for the upcoming Season 4 of “Downton Abbey.” In addition, you’ll have to wall yourself off for the next five months until the hit British drama runs in the U.S. on PBS, where it has become the network’s most watched drama ever, with an average of 11.5 million total viewers. Meanwhile, its legions of fans in the U.K. will have already seen the entire new...
Top TV Shows as a Travel Guide: Touring Girls, Downton & Hatfields Territory
Mad Men. Downton Abbey. Boardwalk Empire. Girls. Hatfields & McCoys. These programs are all up for shelves full of Emmy Awards (September 23 on ABC with Host Jimmy Kimmel) but they also offer some great travel ideas. These tips are courtesy of Lonely Planet Travel Editor Robert Reid, who says the contenders for Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Drama Series also engender some great travel destinations. Mad Men: Manhattan...
Summer Soirées. Network Party Update – Take One
When Lord Grantham goes to the bar to order drinks at the Beverly Hilton while his manservant Bates is just a few feet away and doesn’t make a move, you know it’s going to be a memorable night. And that was after Hugh Bonneville ripped open his shirt to reveal a “Free Bates” T-shirt underneath, to the delight of Brendan Coyle. PBS’s “Downton Abbey” evening started things off with a bang at the TCA’s summer press...
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