Downton Abbey
It's the show that's ticking everyone's boxes and is certainly doing the business for Channel 7. But we're not sure how this terribly British period drama ended up on Channel 7 when it feels so Sunday night ABC.
It's all very upstairs, downstairs with a lineage that can be traced, via scribe Julian Fellowes, directly to the Robert Altman film Gosford Park. There's also more than a nod to original 1970's series Upstairs, Downstairs, which in a strange twist decided to roll out a new season of that show late last year, some 30 years after the series had ostensibly ended.
Joining Andrew to discuss Downton Abbey's Edwardian shenanigans are the ever-so-Upstairs Jo Casamento (The Sun Herald) and Angus Fontaine (Time Out).
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