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Julian Fellowes

October 2023

  • Top dollar cosplay … The Gilded Age returns for season two

    TV review
    The Gilded Age review – it takes some nerve to give Oscar Wilde a cameo … then grant him no good lines

    Though Julian Fellowes’ tale of New York aristos never fizzes as it should, you will still swallow it whole … even if it feels wrong with every fibre of your being

April 2022

  • First look at Downton Abbey film<br>UnSophie McShera's Daisy and Lesley Nicol's Mrs Patmore chatting over a stove in the kitchen of the fictional Yorkshire country estate.  in DOWNTON ABBEY: A New Era

    Downton Abbey: A New Era review – an artless cash-in with the Crawleys

  • Hugh Bonneville, left, and Michelle Dockery in Downton Abbey: A New Era.

    Downton Abbey: A New Era review – cheerfully risible second helping of snobby melodrama

February 2022

  • Elizabeth McGovern and Haley Lu Richardson in The Chaperone.

    The Chaperone review – dishing dirt in well-turned hats and hair

    Semi-true story from Julian Fellowes sets churchgoing Kansas lady the challenge of keeping the girl about to become Louise Brooks in line in 1920s New York

January 2022

  • Martin Freeman, with Adelayo Adedayo, in The Responder.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The Responder; Trigger Point; The Gilded Age; Survivors: Portraits of the Holocaust

    As a Liverpool copper in meltdown, Martin Freeman excels in Tony Schumacher’s unmissable drama; the clock’s ticking for ITV’s new bomb disposal series; and Downton Abbey, New York-style
  • All of human life is here. Not in any credible way – just here … Louisa Jacobson as Marian Brook and Denée Benton as Peggy Scott in The Gilded Age.

    TV review
    The Gilded Age review – Julian Fellowes’ stinky rich New Yorkers are sheer agony

    Forget Downton … here’s the new and definitely not improved Brownstone Abbey – and these posh Americans spout nothing but drivel. Does Fellowes actually write this stuff in his sleep?
  • Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski in The Gilded Age

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: a juicy period drama from Downton’s Julian Fellowes

    Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon enjoy their wealth in The Gilded Age. Plus, a new look at the Krays. Here’s what to watch this evening

December 2021

  • Kipps: The New Half a Sixpence Musical

    Julian Fellowes turns Half a Sixpence rewrite Kipps into winning fun

    In a surprisingly class-conscious stage adaptation of the HG Wells-inspired musical from the Downton Abbey creator on Sky, Charlie Stemp radiates kindly innocence

April 2021

  • ‘Downton Abbey’ Film - 2019<br>Editorial use only. No book cover usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jaap Buitendijk/Focus/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (10418433ao) Jim Carter as Mr Carson ‘Downton Abbey’ Film - 2019 The continuing story of the Crawley family, wealthy owners of a large estate in the English countryside in the early 20th century.

    Downton Abbey film sequel set for Christmas 2021 release

    A followup to the 2019 film is currently in production, with Dominic West, Hugh Dancy and Laura Haddock joining returning cast members

April 2020

  • Clockwise from top left: The English Game; Belgravia; Julian Fellowes; Downton Abbey; Doctor Thorne; more Downton.

    From Downton to Belgravia: a guide to the posh programmes of Julian Fellowes

    Blustering aristos, parasols, cutlery-based infractions – here’s how to distinguish between his indistinguishable shows

March 2020

  • David Squires on … The English Premier League Game

    David Squires on …
    David Squires on … The English Premier League Game

  • Toff of the league ... Edward Holcroft as Arthur Kinnaird in The English Game.

    TV review
    The English Game review – Julian Fellowes football drama is an own goal

  • Tamsin Greig as Anne Trenchard and Philip Glenister as James Tranchard in Belgravia

    TV review
    Belgravia review – Julian Fellowes is caught in an uptown funk

  • Costume melodrama ... Belgravia.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Julian Fellowes' tale of nouveau riche London

  • Black enough?
    Why are period dramas so white? - video

  • Who gave English football its mass appeal? The ‘Scotch Professors’

February 2020

  • Rufus Norris

    National Theatre boss denies being part of ‘left-of-centre elite’

    Rufus Norris rebuffs Downton creator Julian Fellowes’ claim that NT is in a cultural bubble

November 2019

  •  Zizi Strallen as Mary Poppins.

    Mary Poppins review – stageful of sugar is a rapturous delight

    Zizi Strallen is excellent as the buoyant nanny in Eyre’s chippy and enduring show, which also calls on Julian Fellowes, Matthew Bourne and Petula Clark

September 2019

  • (2019) Michelle Dockery stars as Lady Mary Talbot and Matthew Goode as Henry Talbot in DOWNTON ABBEY, a Focus Features release. Credit: Jaap Buitendijk / Focus Features

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Downton Abbey review – ridiculous, vanilla-flavoured fun

    Imelda Staunton joins Maggie Smith and co in this standalone film that feels like an intensely glucose Christmas special

October 2018

  • Jamal Ahmed, Samuelle John-Brown, Charis Claresta Tetteh and Amelie Green, who star in School of Rock.

    'I was welling up!' Teachers report on their School of Rock students

    The child stars of the West End musical rock out in a band assembled by Dewey Finn, who poses as a supply teacher. What do their own teachers make of the hit show?
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