Who created and wrote the TV series `Downton Abbey'?
"The Gilded Age (TV series) The Gilded Age is an upcoming television drama developed by Julian Fellowes for NBC that is set in America during the Gilded Age, the boom years of 1880s New York City. It was announced in 2018. Its main characters announced so far include: NBC announced that the show will have a ten-episode first season, premiering in 2019. In September 2012, ""The Daily Telegraph"" reported Julian Fellowes as saying that he was working on a spin-off prequel of ""Downton Abbey"" that revolves around Lord Grantham and Cora's romance and eventual marriage as the earl and countess"
"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 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"
"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 /"
"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"
"at the Duke of York's Theatre. In 2010, Stevens got his biggest break when he was cast as Matthew Crawley in the ITV series ""Downton Abbey"", created and written by Oscar-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes. The series went on to be a global sensation and has been nominated for several Emmy, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards since its debut. The central love story of Matthew Crawley and his distant cousin, Lady Mary Crawley, played by Michelle Dockery, was enormously popular. Stevens left the series after finishing the third season and the Christmas Special in 2012. His exit caused"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Michael Eaton Michael Eaton (born 1954) is an English playwright and scriptwriter. He is best known for his television docudrama scripts, including ""Shipman"", ""Why Lockerbie"" and ""Shoot to Kill"", and for writing the feature film ""Fellow Traveller"" (1989), which won best screenplay in the British Film Awards. In recent years, he has become known for stage plays and his radio dramas for the BBC. Eaton was born in Sherwood, Nottingham and educated at The Nottingham High School, before going on to read Social Anthropology at King's College, Cambridge, where, in 1976, he was awarded a double first. After a period"
"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]"
"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"
"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."
"of the aristocratic Crawley family and their domestic servants. Upon its transmission, ""Downton Abbey"" received extensive critical acclaim, and strong viewing figures in both the UK and America. During her time on the show, the ""Downton Abbey"" cast won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2012 (for series 2), and were nominated also in 2013 (for series 3). Finneran announced her departure in March 2013, ahead of the fourth series, explaining that she had been signed for only three series and did not wish to extend her contract, adding: ""When"
"co-wrote the screenplay with Christopher McQuarrie and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Other films in which Fellowes has appeared include ""Full Circle"" (1977), ""Priest of Love"" (1981), ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"" (1982), ""Damage"" (1992), ""Shadowlands"" (1993), ""Jane Eyre"" (1996), ""Tomorrow Never Dies"" (1997), ""Regeneration"" (1997) and ""Place Vendôme"" (1998). He has continued his acting career while writing. He unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of Master of Lake-town in the 2012–2014 ""The Hobbit"" series. Fellowes was the screenwriter and one of the producers for ""Downton Abbey"", which started principal photography in late August 2018. Most members of the cast of the television programme"
"Scott Abbott (screenwriter) Scott Charles Abbott (born August 30, 1962) is an American screenwriter and novelist. Abbott attended New York University, and was admitted to the American Film Institute's screenwriting program after writing his first script, ""My Father's Keeper"". His screenwriting credits include ""Winchell"" (1998), ""Introducing Dorothy Dandridge"" (1999), ""Queen of the Damned"" (2002), and the 2014 miniseries ""Rosemary's Baby"". In 2017 his movie ""The Watcher in the Woods"" starring Anjelica Huston opened in theaters throughout Europe and aired on the Lifetime Network. He also co-wrote the novel ""The Ghost of Christmas Present"" with Amy Maude Swinton, which was published"
"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"
"London children's charity Scene & Heard and an ambassador for WaterAid. Hugh Bonneville Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams (born 10 November 1963), known professionally as Hugh Bonneville, is an English actor. He is best known for playing Robert Crawley in the television series ""Downton Abbey"" (2010–2015), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and two consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards. Bonneville was born in Paddington, in west London, to a mother who was a nurse and a father who was a urological surgeon. He was educated at Dulwich College Preparatory School and at Sherborne School, an independent school in"
"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""."
"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"
"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"
"""Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired ""Upstairs, Downstairs"" and ""Downton Abbey"""". Margaret Powell Margaret Powell (1907 – April 1984) was an English writer. Her book about her experiences in domestic service, ""Below Stairs"", became a best-seller and she went on to write other books and became a television personality. ""Below Stairs"" was an impetus for ""Upstairs, Downstairs"" and the basis of ""Beryl's Lot"", and is one of the inspirations of ""Downton Abbey"". Ellen Margaret Steer's father Harry was seasonally employed as a house painter, and her mother Florence was a charwoman. Her parents and her grandmother lived"
"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"
"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"
"the working class during the interwar period and hints towards the eventual decline of the British aristocracy. ""Downton Abbey"" has received acclaim from television critics and won numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries or Movie. It was recognised by ""Guinness World Records"" as the most critically acclaimed English-language television series of 2011. It earned the most nominations of any international television series in the history of the Primetime Emmy Awards, with twenty-seven in total (after two series). It was the most watched television series on"
"Victor Pemberton Victor Pemberton (10 October 1931 – 13 August 2017) was a British writer and television producer. His scriptwriting work included BBC radio plays, and television scripts for the BBC and ITV, including ""Doctor Who"", ""The Slide"", ""Timeslip"" and ""The Adventures of Black Beauty"". His television production work included the British version of ""Fraggle Rock"" (second series onwards), and several independent documentaries including the 1989 International Emmy Award-winning ""Gwen: A Juliet Remembered"", about stage actress Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies. Pemberton grew up in Islington, London, and lived for many years in Essex. In his earlier years, Pemberton had several small screen"
"BBC1 (2004/2005). She also co-authored an episode of Julian Fellowes’s recent hit television series ""Downton Abbey"" (ITV, Autumn 2010), and has just completed the screenplay for ""Outside Child"", a feature film set on the Caribbean island of Nevis in the present day and the 17th century. The screenplay was co-written with Justin Hardy and adapted from June Goodfield's book ""Rivers of Time"". Recent radio work includes ""Forgiving"" (BBC Radio 4), a drama-documentary inspired by true stories and using interview material; and a drama-documentary called ""Aftershock"", which was broadcast in August 2009, to mark the tenth anniversary of the earthquake in"
"Don Houghton Donald Herbert ""Don"" Houghton (2 February 1930 – 2 July 1991) was a British television screenwriter. Born in Paris, Houghton started writing for radio in 1951 before moving into film and television in 1958. In the 1970s, he was a primary writer for Hammer Films including for ""Dracula AD 1972"", ""The Satanic Rites of Dracula"", ""The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires"" and ""Shatter"". His television work includes ""Doctor Who"" for which he wrote the serials ""Inferno"" (1970) and ""The Mind of Evil"" (1971), the fifth ""Sapphire & Steel"" television story (known informally as ""Dr McDee Must Die"")"
"Downton Abbey (series 1) The first series of ""Downton Abbey"" comprises 7 episodes, and was broadcast in the UK on 26 September 2010, and explored the lives of the Crawley family and their servants from the day after the sinking of the RMS ""Titanic"" in April 1912 to the outbreak of the First World War on 4 August 1914. The ties between blood relations in family are an important part of the series. The series takes a sympathetic look at those at lower positions in life, such as the more compassionate treatment of homosexuality seen with depictions of the character"