This year is the 100th since the 'unsinkable' Titanic did indeed sink in the icy waters of the northern Atlantic in what has now been accepted as one of the largest ever maritime disasters. On a somewhat equally chilly Thursday afternoon in south London I went to ITV to see episodes one and two of a new, Julian Fellowes-written, four-part drama about that fateful maiden voyage.

The story of the Titanic is preparing to sail back onto our screens this month, as Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes unveils his latest period-dra...

Shirley MacLaine has signed up to star in the third series of Downton Abbey. The American actress, best known for her Oscar-winning role in Terms O...

The Sun reports Downton Abbey writer Julian Fellowes was "virtually mobbed" by film executives after the show picked up a major award at the Golden Globes on Sunday. From the tone of the article, it sounds like a movie version of the ITV drama is pretty much a certainty... Well, you can count me out.

Historian Simon Schama has attacked Downton Abbey, saying it "serves up a steaming, silvered tureen of snobbery". Writing in Newsweek, Schama, an e...

Downton Abbey could be on its way to the silver screen, if a report in The Sun is to be believed. The paper claims the ITV1 period-drama's writer J...

THE Downton Abbey gang could be back again in Hollywood quite soon — making Downton: The Movie. Show creator Julian Fellowes was the toast of Tin...

Kate Winslet still manages to look surprised at award ceremonies, despite winning more trophies than most in the last few years. The British actre...

Downton Abbey's romances won't be sexed up any time soon, despite fans' calls for some salacious on-screen action. Sexual innuendo is rife within J...

For the Downton Abbey Christmas special, Julian Fellowes breaks free of his usual, very English restraint and indulges us with the type of script that...

"Collectively, we are starting to feel it's our best yet, so it's great, we're very happy about it," Brendan Coyle, the warm, but troubled, Mr Bates, ...

Downton Abbey last night saw Sir Richard Carlisle in unusually reflective mood, telling the Earl of Grantham: "When the war is over is over, the first...

Downton Abbey could come to an end as early as next year, after its creator Julian Fellowes declared he only ever planned to write three series. Sp...

Downton Abbey returns to our TV screens this Sunday evening for its much-heralded second series. With it comes more scheming and skullduggery from sna...

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has admitted that he should not have got "the hump" when viewers pointed out a string of hi...

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Ratings hit Downton Abbey is to go up against long-running drama Spooks in a head-to-head Sunday night battle when the two shows ...

We’re used to seeing chandeliers, butlers and idyllic settings in Downton Abbey. The furthest we moved away from luxury in the last series was when ...

Walking up the long gravelled driveway to Highclere Castle, surrounded on both sides by vast countryside and rolling hills, you get a sense of how Hug...

Oscar-winning scriptwriter Julian Fellowes has shown himself to be made of a very English gentility, admitting that criticism of his ITV drama, Downto...