Julian Fellowes: Last News

Focus Features today offered CinemaCon attendees an emotional look at the first trailer for Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. This is the last in the trilogy of big screen continuations of the British TV drama phenomenon. It’s written by series creator Julian Fellowes and directed by Simon Curtis.

HBO executive vice president Francesca Orsi gave an interview last month that seemed to hint at when The Gilded Age will be back with season three.

Carrie Coon couldn’t tease much about The Gilded Age Season 3, but she had one particular group of people to thank for keeping the show going.

As we wait for the third Downton Abbey movie and the third season of The Gilded Age, you might be wondering if both titles exist in the same universe.

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor Fans of “Downton Abbey” were devastated when Maggie Smith, aka the Dowager Countess, died in September. Smith had starred in both the TV series and in both movies, with the Countess character dying at the end of “Downton Abbey: A New Era.” Now executive producer Gareth Neame promises that the third film, due Sept.

Downton Abbey 3 will pay homage to the “end of an era” with the loss of the Dowager Countess, which has now taken on greater significance following the death of Oscar-winning actress Maggie Smith, executive producer Gareth Neame said.

EXCLUSIVE: Julian Fellowes is going from crimes of high society to real crimes. The Downton Abbey and The Gilded Age creator is set to write and executive produce a TV adaptation of Swiss-American author Donna Leon’s contemporary Detective Brunetti book series, which is in development at 20th Television.

EXCLUSIVE: HBO‘s The Gilded Age has tapped six for supporting roles in Season 3: Dylan Baker (The Good Wife), Kate Baldwin (Broadway’s Hello, Dolly!), Michael Cumpsty (Severance), John Ellison Conlee (Boardwalk Empire), Bobby Steggert (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), and newcomer Hannah Shealy (The Rose Tattoo).

Mike Tindall has revealed that he keeps it strictly formal with his mother-in-law, Princess Anne, even in private.The former England rugby star, who tied the knot with King Charles' niece Zara Tindall in 2011, opened up on Good Morning Britain today, 4 November. He revealed that he addresses the Princess Royal simply as "Ma'am." During the chat with host Susanna Reid, when quizzed about what he calls Anne behind closed doors, Mike's answer was straightforward: "Ma'am." Last year, Mike and his co-hosts from The Good, The Bad and The Rugby podcast, Alex Payne and James Haskell, managed to bag a joint interview with Anne, Prince William, and Kate, Princess of Wales, in their roles as patrons of Scottish, Welsh, and English rugby.

Downton Abbey creator Lord Julian Fellowes has said Dame Maggie Smith was a “blessing in my life” as he recalled her wit and kindness to younger performers on set.

Maggie Smith is remembered on social media, and fans have shared several clips that have gone viral.

Maggie Smith, who died Friday at the age of 89, earned three Primetime Emmy awards for her role as Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham in all six seasons of the British period drama Downton Abbey. She also reprised her role in the two Downton Abbey films: her character died in 2022’s Downton Abbey: A New Era.

Alex Ritman “Downton Abbey” creator and writer Julian Fellowes has paid tribute to the late Maggie Smith, who passed away on Friday at the age of 89. While the most famous collaboration between Smith and Fellowes may have been on the plush, award-winning period drama series, on which Smith notably played the the acid-tongued Dowager Countess, the two had actually worked together several times previously.

Dame Maggie Smith, the two-time Oscar-winning British actress who starred in Harry Potter films, Downton Abbey and scores of other movies and TV shows, died today. She was 89.

The long-gestating TV adaptation of Georges Simenon’s Maigret has landed at PBS Masterpiece, with Belgravia: The Next Chapter’s Benjamin Wainwright and Stefanie Martini (Prime Suspect 1973) playing the eponymous leads.

Justin Theroux is on his way to the altar.The 53-year-old actor is engaged to Nicole Brydon Bloom, 30, per People.Theroux proposed in Italy, where the couple is currently residing for the Venice Film Festival to promote “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.”The “Leftovers” star and “The Affair” actress walked the red carpet Wednesday where she posed with a massive emerald-cut sparkler on that finger.Bloom didn’t shy away from showing off her new bling as she smiled for photographers while placing her hand on Theroux’s stomach and arm.Theroux and Bloom first sparked romance rumors in February 2023 after they attended a Netflix event at the New York City social club Zero Bond together. The duo was spotted alongside Tan France and actress Louisa Jacobson, with whom Bloom stars on the HBO series “The Gilded Age.”In August 2023, Theroux and Bloom were later photographed kissing during a date night in NYC.By October, the couple was photographed leaving a gym together in the Big Apple.The Post has reached out to Theroux and Bloom’s reps for comment.Theroux was previously married to Jennifer Aniston from 2015 to 2017.Although Bloom has kept her personal life largely out of the spotlight, she has an impressive acting resume, currently starring in the Hulu drama “We Were the Lucky Ones.”The star has also appeared in “1BR,” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” Bloom portrayed fan favorite Caroline Stuyvesant in season 2 of “The Gilded Age.”Taking a moment to talk about starring in the period piece, she told Today at Elon, “I loved “Downton Abbey” and Julian Fellowes’ work.

Several newcomers will join the dramatic ensemble of HBO’s The Gilded Age once season 3 hits the small screen. The third season of Julian Fellowes’ period series is set in the late 1800s is currently in production.

As Agnes van Rhijn in The Gilded Age, Christine Baranski embodies a New York matriarch bound by stringent class division and societal contest—something the show’s creator Julian Fellowes so famously explored within the British aristocracy in Downton Abbey. Baranski conveys both generations of painful suppression and a wry humor as Van Rhijn—a woman upholding a family legacy while supporting her sister (Cynthia Nixon), niece (Louisa Jacobson) and son (Blake Ritson).

Some of the cast of Downton Abbey reunited for a little musical night out!

So much for the thinking that movies are dead and quality TV shows have snatched the reins of Hollywood.A quick glance at the 2024 Emmy Award nominations, which were announced on Wednesday, is enough to blow that theory into a million pieces.Television is in dire shape.This year’s pathetic lineup for Best Drama Series, supposedly the best the industry has to offer, would better serve as a list of streaming services to unsubscribe from than a group of must-watch shows.The marquee nominees are “The Crown” (Netflix) “The Gilded Age” (HBO) “The Morning Show” (Apple TV+), “Mr. & Mrs.

Alex Ritman The Crawley family — and their assortment of maids, butlers, cooks, drivers, well-heeled relatives and other various moneyed associates — will be returning to the big screen next fall. Focus Features has slated “Downton Abbey 3″ for global release on Sept.