Who has created the ITV serial 'Downton Abbey'?
"Outstanding Miniseries or Movie, Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Dramatic Special for Brian Percival, Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Dramatic Special for Julian Fellowes, and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for Dame Maggie Smith, who won again the following year for series 2. At the 63rd Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, the series won Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special and Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or Movie – both for ""Episode One"". Downton Abbey (series 1) The first series of ""Downton Abbey"" comprises 7 episodes, and was broadcast in the"
"the Nursing Memorial Appeal. Julian Fellowes Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford (born 17 August 1949) is an English actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, and a Conservative peer of the House of Lords. Lord Fellowes is primarily known as the author of several ""Sunday Times"" best-seller novels; for the screenplay for the film ""Gosford Park"", which won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2002; and as the creator, writer and executive producer of the multiple award-winning ITV series ""Downton Abbey"" (2010–2015). Fellowes was born in Cairo, Egypt, the youngest son of Peregrine Edward Launcelot Fellowes,"
"Julian Fellowes Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford (born 17 August 1949) is an English actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, and a Conservative peer of the House of Lords. Lord Fellowes is primarily known as the author of several ""Sunday Times"" best-seller novels; for the screenplay for the film ""Gosford Park"", which won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2002; and as the creator, writer and executive producer of the multiple award-winning ITV series ""Downton Abbey"" (2010–2015). Fellowes was born in Cairo, Egypt, the youngest son of Peregrine Edward Launcelot Fellowes, and his British wife,"
"Gareth Neame Gareth Elwin Neame (born 8 March 1967) is a British Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning television producer and executive. He was the executive producer of the worldwide phenomenon Downton Abbey, and originally proposed the idea to its writer/creator Julian Fellowes As an executive at the BBC, Neame was responsible for bringing a new wave of popular dramas to the screen including ""Spooks"" (MI5), ""State of Play"", ""Hustle"" and ""New Tricks"". Neame’s strategy significantly enhanced the independent production sector as a source of quality and commercial scripted television programmes. Neame is the fourth generation of a family that has"
"the Carnival Films television series, Downton Abbey, executive produced by Gareth Neame and written by Julian Fellowes. Downton Abbey is the most nominated non-U.S. show in history and the highest rated PBS drama ever. As Executive Vice President of Carnival Films, Oppenheimer developed and executive produced Christopher Guest’s Family Tree for HBO and BBC1, starring Chris O’Dowd. As President of Bruce Helford’s Mohawk Productions at Warner Bros., Oppenheimer executive produced television shows starring Drew Carey, George Lopez, Wanda Sykes, Norm Macdonald, and the late Bernie Mac. Oppenheimer was associate producer for the Cable ACE Award-winning production of the Showtime /"
"Loving You?"", was composed by John Lunn. A suite version was released on the soundtrack for the show on 19 September 2011 in the UK and later in the US on 13 December 2011. The soundtrack also included the song performed by singer Mary-Jess Leaverland, with lyrics written by Don Black. The rights to broadcast ""Downton Abbey"" have been acquired in over 220 countries and territories, and the series is viewed by a global audience of an estimated 120 million people. The series first aired on the ITV network in the United Kingdom beginning on 26 September 2010, and received"
"Laura Carmichael Laura Elizabeth Carmichael (born 16 July 1986) is an English actress, most widely known for her performance as Lady Edith Crawley in the ITV (UK) and PBS (US) television period drama series"" Downton Abbey"". Her other work includes television series ""Marcella"" (2016), and the feature film ""A United Kingdom"" (2016). Carmichael was born in Southampton, England, to Sarah, a radiographer, and Andy Carmichael, a software consultant. She is the middle of three daughters. Her sister Amy works for a software start-up company and her sister Olivia is a charity fundraiser with the NHS. One of Carmichael's paternal great-grandfathers"
"the idea of an Edwardian-era TV drama set in a country house and approached Fellowes, who had won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) for ""Gosford Park"". The TV series ""Downton Abbey"" – written and created by Fellowes – was originally planned as a spin-off of ""Gosford Park"", but instead was developed as a stand-alone property inspired by the film, set decades earlier. Although Fellowes was reluctant to work on another project resembling ""Gosford Park"", within a few weeks he returned to Neame with an outline of the first series. Influenced by Edith Wharton's ""The Custom of the"
"Michelle Dockery Michelle Suzanne Dockery (born December 15, 1981) is an English actress and singer. She is most widely known for her leading performance as Lady Mary Crawley in the ITV (UK) and PBS (U.S.) television period drama series ""Downton Abbey"" (2010–15), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and three consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards in the category of Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Dockery made her professional stage debut in ""His Dark Materials"" in 2004. For her role as Eliza Doolittle in the 2007 London revival of ""Pygmalion"", she was nominated for the Evening"
"Jamestown (TV series) Jamestown is a 2017 British drama television series, written by Bill Gallagher and produced by Carnival Films, the makers of ""Downton Abbey"". Set in 1619, ""Jamestown"" follows the first English settlers as they establish a community in the New World. Among those landing onshore are a group of women destined to be married to the men of Jamestown, including three spirited women from England. The series premiered on Sky One in the United Kingdom in May 2017. Sky ordered a second series of ""Jamestown"" in May 2017, before the premiere of the first series. Series 2 aired"
"Andrew Davenport Andrew Davenport (born 10 June 1965) is an award-winning English producer, writer, composer, puppeteer and actor specialising in creating television and publishing for young children. Davenport has been dubbed 'the J. K. Rowling of the under fives' following the extraordinary international success of ""Teletubbies"" and ""In the Night Garden..."". Davenport created ""Teletubbies"" (first broadcast in the UK in 1997) with Anne Wood, and wrote all of the 365 episodes. He created ""In the Night Garden..."" (first broadcast in the UK in 2007), wrote all of the 100 episodes, and composed the title theme and incidental music. He is"
"was a producer of Barnaby Blackburn's short film ""Wale"". Speleers lives in London, England. He is married to Asia Macey and has one child with her, born in January 2015. In May 2018, the British portal Daily Mail confirmed that the couple would be expecting their second baby. Ed Speleers Edward John ""Ed"" Speleers (born 7 April 1988) is an English actor and producer. He is best known for playing the title role in the 2006 film ""Eragon"", as well as starring in the TV series ""Downton Abbey"". Speleers also has nominations for awards such as Saturn Award and National"
"her three daughters, particularly in respect to the inability to produce a male heir, and the importance of a woman's virtue in the ""Downton Abbey"" television series written by Julian Fellowes and produced by ITV. The curry-flavored turtle soup dish with sherry, Lady Curzon Soup, which ""appears on almost every important menu in Germany according to friends"" who travelled there in the 1950s and 1960s, has been attributed to her, as reported in the 1977 Chicago Tribune, of the famous hometown lady who died in 1906. She directed the inclusion of sherry as she ""apparently had a strong penchant for"
"ITV television series Downton Abbey. The castle is now owned by Lincolnshire County Council and is a scheduled ancient monument. In 2012, the ""Lincoln Castle Revealed"" project, a three-year programme of renovation began at the castle. Work involves creating a new exhibition centre in which to display Magna Carta, building visitor facilities, and opening sections of the prison within the castle to the public. The scheme was completed in April 2015 to coincide with the 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta. The Lincoln Castle Magna Carta is one of the four surviving originals, sealed by King John after"
"The Abbey (TV series) The Abbey is a British television situation comedy produced by Baby Cow Productions for ITV, about dysfunctional celebrities with various vices that seek sanctuary at The Abbey to overcome their problems. It is written by Morwenna Banks, directed by Johnny Campbell and executive produced by Henry Normal. Banks stars as ex-rock star Marianne Hope who opened The Abbey as a retreat offering new age therapies, after her very public nervous breakdown. Omid Djalili plays The Abbey's owner Tony. Russell Brand is a DJ seemingly nonchalant about his crack cocaine addiction, who even has to resort to"
"""Downton Abbey"". The programme has been distributed internationally by ITV Studios' Global Entertainment brand. ITV sold the series to a number countries at the 2012 Mipcom event. In addition they have pre-sold the show to Australia's Seven Network and the satellite television provider, Yes, in Israel. In the Netherlands, Series 1 was aired starting August, 2013 and series 2 was aired from July 2014. In Sweden ""Mr Selfridge"" was aired at the public service network SVT. The last two episodes of season 4 were aired as a double on 25 June 2016 on SVT1. Mr Selfridge Mr Selfridge is a"
"in perpetuity. The earl and countess, who have three daughters and no son, arranged for their eldest daughter to marry her cousin, son of the then-heir presumptive. The demise of both heirs in the sinking of the ""Titanic"" destroys the plans and brings into play a distant male cousin, Matthew Crawley, a solicitor from Manchester, as heir presumptive to Downton and the countess's fortune. Upstairs Downstairs <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> The first series of ""Downton Abbey"" received universal and widespread critical acclaim, including commercial success. On 14 July 2011, ""Downton Abbey"" received eleven nominations for the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards winning six, including"
"Dan Stevens Daniel Jonathan Stevens (born 10 October 1982) is an English actor. He first drew international attention for his role as Matthew Crawley in the ITV acclaimed period drama series ""Downton Abbey"" (2010–12). He also starred as David in the thriller film ""The Guest"" (2014), Sir Lancelot in the adventure film """" (2014), The Beast/Prince in Disney's live action adaptation of ""Beauty and the Beast"" (2017), Lorin Willis in the biographical legal drama ""Marshall"" (2017), and Charles Dickens in the biographical drama ""The Man Who Invented Christmas"" (2017). Since 2017, he has starred as David Haller in the FX"
"Shop"". His nine-minute short ""About a Girl"" won the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film and several film festival awards in 2001. Since 2010 he has directed seven episodes of the ITV British period drama, ""Downton Abbey"". For his work on the show he won the 2010 BAFTA Craft award for Best Fiction Director and the 2011 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special. In 2012, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for ""Episode 7"". He also directed the 2013 film, ""The Book Thief""."
"by Bill Gallagher and produced by Carnival Films, the makers of Downton Abbey. The series premiered on Sky One in the United Kingdom in May 2017. Sky ordered a second series of Jamestown in May 2017, before the premiere of the first series. Series 2 aired from February 2018. The renewal of Jamestown for a third season was announced by Sky One on March 23, 2018. On July 24, 2018, archaeologists from Jamestown Rediscovery and the Smithsonian Institution announced the discovery of a prominent burial around 400 years old in an important spot within the church. Ground-penetrating radar confirmed the"
"Eight"" starring Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Michael Gambon and Ralph Fiennes; landmark four-part drama ""Any Human Heart"" starring Jim Broadbent, Matthew MacFadyen, Hayley Atwell and Kim Cattrall; ""The Hollow Crown"", a BBC adaptation of Shakespeare's history plays starring Tom Hiddleston, Ben Whishaw and Jeremy Irons; ""The Last Weekend"", a three-part adaptation of Blake Morrison's novel; and ""Whitechapel"" for ITV. Carnival's biggest hit, both critically and commercially, is ""Downton Abbey"", written and co-produced by Julian Fellowes. Its final episode aired on 25 December 2015. Carnival Films has won a wide variety of awards for its work on Television, Film and Stage"
"directors Kelly Valentine Hendry and Victor Jenkins of VHJ Casting. Chibnall was inspired by ITV's hit show ""Downton Abbey"" to cast only top actors. ""I said, 'We have to have cast as good as ""Downton"". ...That was absolutely my shameless aim, to go, 'Okay, you have to look at our poster and feel that's going to give ""Downton"" a run for its money.' "" Executive producers Chibnall and Featherstone and producer Richard Stokes held extensive discussions with the casting directors, who then generated lists of potential actors to whom the producers might wish to offer roles or ask to audition."
"of Downton Abbey. Initially conceived as a book, it was then planned for pick-up by ITV. In a 2015 interview with ""The Mail on Sunday"", Fellowes announced that a spin-off prequel television series was in planning: a new period drama series for NBC television, to be set in late 19th-century New York City, titled ""The Guilded Age"". Fellowes suggested that a younger version of Maggie Smith's Dowager Countess character from his ""Downton Abbey"" drama might appear in the new series, saying: ""Robert Crawley would be in his early teens, Cora would be a child. A young Violet [the Dowager Countess]"
"pilot, with a view to a series if the one-off was popular enough. The episode gained an estimated 2.3 million viewers and somewhat poor reviews. ITV commissioned a full series of ""The Abbey"" for broadcast on ITV2 in 2008. Filming was due to begin in January 2008 but the series was later cancelled. The Abbey (TV series) The Abbey is a British television situation comedy produced by Baby Cow Productions for ITV, about dysfunctional celebrities with various vices that seek sanctuary at The Abbey to overcome their problems. It is written by Morwenna Banks, directed by Johnny Campbell and executive"
"Ed Speleers Edward John ""Ed"" Speleers (born 7 April 1988) is an English actor and producer. He is best known for playing the title role in the 2006 film ""Eragon"", as well as starring in the TV series ""Downton Abbey"". Speleers also has nominations for awards such as Saturn Award and National Television Awards. Speleers was born at St Richard's Hospital, Chichester, West Sussex. His parents divorced when he was three. His mother, Gill, lives in Spain; his father, John, is a financial consultant and lives in London. He has two older half brothers. In 2006, he left Eastbourne College"
"""Strictly Come Dancing"", ""House of Cards"", ""Who Do You Think You Are?"" (genealogy series where a celebrity traces their family tree), ""Black Mirror"" (created by Charlie Brooker), ""Sherlock"", ""Doctor Who"", ""Downton Abbey"", ""The Crown"" and ""Top Gear"". David Attenborough's acclaimed nature documentaries, including ""The Blue Planet"", ""Planet Earth"" and ""Life on Earth"", are produced by the BBC Natural History Unit, the largest wildlife documentary production house in the world. The British Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes in 2000 was voted by industry insiders. In 2004 the BBC conducted a poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom."
"Paul Abbott and ""Harry Potter"" author J. K. Rowling to write for the series; both declined due to existing commitments. Shortly after he secured writers for the show, Davies stated that he had no intention of approaching writers from the old series; the only writer he would have wished to work with was Holmes, who died in May 1986. By early 2004, the show had settled into a regular production cycle. Davies, Gardner, and BBC Controller of Continuing Drama Series Mal Young took posts as executive producers, and Phil Collinson, his old colleague from Granada, took the role of producer."
"buzzkill."" Ed Power of The Telegraph said of the show ""Cheap-looking special effects, a bland hero and barely any resemblance to the source material makes this Beowulf a flop"" Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands Beowulf is a British epic fantasy drama television series broadcast by ITV. It was created by James Dormer, Tim Haines and Katie Newman. Dormer wrote the series based on the poem ""Beowulf"" and executive-produced it along with Haines and Newman, while Stephen Smallwood produced the series. The series began airing in the United Kingdom on 3 January 2016 and in the United States from 23 January"
"Andy Goddard Andy Goddard (born 1968) is a British director and screenwriter, best known for writing and directing his feature debut ""Set Fire to the Stars"" (2014) and directing and co-producing his second feature ""A Kind of Murder"" (2016). Goddard has also directed multiple episodes of the ITV period drama series ""Downton Abbey"". Goddard was born in Pembroke Dock, Wales and grew up on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. He later studied film, photography and television at Napier University in Edinburgh. Goddard's debut short ""Little Sisters"" was nominated for a BAFTA Award and won the Gold Hugo Award for"
"writing now will end, let alone the book, and the series? No idea! I suspect there will be a few more; I just heard that BBC Television have commissioned a series that will follow Uhtred’s escapades. The company that makes Downton Abbey will make the programs, which is wonderful, and I’ll need to keep them supplied with stories (I hope). So? Six more? Eight more? I just don’t know."" When the television adaptation of the first two novels aired in fall of 2015, Cornwell reiterated how the idea took shape in his mind when he met his birth father in"
"Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands Beowulf is a British epic fantasy drama television series broadcast by ITV. It was created by James Dormer, Tim Haines and Katie Newman. Dormer wrote the series based on the poem ""Beowulf"" and executive-produced it along with Haines and Newman, while Stephen Smallwood produced the series. The series began airing in the United Kingdom on 3 January 2016 and in the United States from 23 January 2016. Shortly after the series began, ITV announced that it would not be picked up for another season; the show ended after 12 episodes. The series is based on"
"the BBC in late 2009, following a move away from ""bonnet dramas"". ITV was looking to recreate its period drama success with ""Downton Abbey"" with a new series ""Mr Selfridge"", written by Davies and starring Jeremy Piven. An initial ten-part series first aired on 6 January 2013 and it has run for 4 series by 2016. Davies' six-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's ""War & Peace"" was broadcast on BBC One in January and February 2016. Following its success, the BBC announced in July 2016 that it would be followed up with a six-part adaptation of Victor Hugo's ""Les Misérables"" to"
"of Grantham Screenwriter Julian Fellowes used the title, Earl of Grantham — although as a new fictional creation in the Peerage of Great Britain — for one of the main characters, Robert Crawley, in his 2010 ITV1 period drama ""Downton Abbey"". Earl of Grantham Earl of Grantham was a title in the Peerage of England created once on 24 December 1698, along with the titles Viscount Boston, of Boston in the County of Lincoln, and Baron Alford, of Alford in the County of Lincoln, for Henry de Nassau d'Auverquerque. The titles were created with a special remainder, failing heirs male"