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The ‘Downton Abbey’ Series Premiere Takes Us Back to Empire
'Downton Abbey' Season 1 is far sharper than you remember.
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'Downton Abbey' Season 1 is far sharper than you remember.
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Downton Abbey and its fans have had a good run. Since the series debuted on PBS Masterpiece in 2011, there have been six seasons and two feature films' worth of Crawley family intrigues, affairs, deaths, and everyday existence to sate the most ardent of Anglophiles. However, the passing in
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Downton Abbey was the beginning of a new era on PBS when it debuted, even though no one knew it at the time. Meant as a truncated one-and-done miniseries when it premiered in the depths of winter in 2011, the series became a word-of-mouth sensation via burgeoning social media. By
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One of our favorite traditions for Downton Abbey was the release of the yearly "Character Posters" that would arrive every season like clockwork, a few weeks before the new season premiered. (Longtime fans may recall the uproar that occurred one year when the image of Lord Grantham and
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Not every fan of Downton Abbey knows that the series theme song has a name and lyrics, beyond just "The Downton Abbey Suite." When the original soundtrack was released in the UK in 2011, it included a version of the track titled "Did I Make the Most
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We here at Telly Visions were not kind to MobLand, either in the extremely truncated run-up to the series after the streaming service nabbed the series from Showtime or in our initial review. After all, we were talking about a project that had all the makings of a slam-dunk hit
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We've officially reached the 100-day mark until the release of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, the third and, as the title desperately insists, final big-screen installment* of the beloved franchise that began 15 years ago on ITV and PBS. A series that consistently surprised both producers and critics
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Any questions about why there is barely any buzz around Paramount+’s MobLand, which like Netflix’s splashy The Gentlemen, was partially directed by British crime king Guy Ritchie (Ritchie created The Gentlemen, while Top Boy’s Ronan Bennett created MobLand) are swiftly answered by the premiere episode – no-one is
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Downton Abbey is revving up for one more round of storytelling on the big screen, but after this, the story is done. Thus proclaims the third movie's new title, Downton Abbey: The Grande Finale, revealed by Focus Features along with the poster key art for the film. The
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The rush to get MobLand out by the end of March so that the finale would air before the 2024-2025 Emmy nominations eligibility period ended on June 1 has been edging on desperate. No one wants to admit defeat in the streaming wars, nor do they want to be swept
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Guy Ritchie was initially known in the U.S. for being the second husband of Madonna Louise Ciccone, whom he married after they met and fell in love on the set of one of his biggest misfires, Swept Away. Sure, in the U.K., the man was recognized as a
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I have been hard on Paramount and its forthcoming Guy Ritchie original series MobLand. But my anger doesn't stem from the show's bad quality or my irrational dislike of the storied studio. It's because I care. I wanted Paramount+ to succeed when it finally