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For months there have been rumors about a return of Downton Abbey. Most of these have been confined to rags like The Sun or The Daily Mail, places that have proven unreliable in the past. Also, these rumors suggested the show was coming back for another season to ITV and
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As the Venice International Film Festival winds down across the pond, the Toronto International Film Festival opens to the north. Known as TIFF, the festival is expected to debut some highly anticipated U.K. productions, including One Life, a clear Oscar bait contender biopic of British humanitarian Nicholas Winton, famous
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Now that Downton Abbey: A New Era has been in theaters for a month and reached streaming, most fans know that the film's ending is, well, rather final. Even though the series sets up the possibility of other stories, the "New Era" of the title also
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PBS' biggest hit of the last decade, Downton Abbey, arrived in 2010, three years before Netflix streamed its first original, and ended in 2015, two years before Disney, WarnerMedia, NBCUniversal, and Apple all jumped in with their own services. Its journey on streaming has been a microcosm of how
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Downton Abbey has made a habit of defying expectations. The series was not supposed to be a big hit for Masterpiece; edited down to four episodes from seven and exiled to the doldrums of January. The first film, distributed by indie studio Focus Features, was viewed as a niche offering
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Though it's been the 1920s since Season 3 of Downton Abbey, the upcoming sequel film Downton Abbey: A New Era leans heavily into the decade in a way the previous installments of the franchise did not. And that's not a historically inaccurate decision. Like many eras
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Even though Downton Abbey: A New Era has moved from mid-March to mid-May, fans are still super excited for a return to the House of Grantham. The fact that a sequel happened this fast in itself was miraculous enough; it seemed almost impossible that more Downton Abbey would arrive in
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The gift of the 2021 lockdowns in the U.K. is that they cleared the schedules of every Downton Abbey actor, making it possible to bring back the entire ensemble for a second big-screen production much quicker than they might have otherwise managed. The first film spent a couple of
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Certain TV shows and movies become holiday staples. Some of that is by design — Nightmare Before Christmas comes to mind as a yearly Halloween/Christmas tradition and was built as such. Others gain the position by sheer repetition: Hocus Pocus, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, It's A Wonderful Life.
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After keeping it theaters only this weekend, Downton Abbey has finally bestowed the new trailer for the feature film sequel, Downton Abbey: A New Era, upon the masses waiting at home. With zero plot synopsis revealed ahead of time, and little to go on other than the entire cast returning,
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Once again, it is time to return to Downton Abbey, the storied house in Yorkshire that belongs to the Crawley family, the seat of the Grantham Estate. Fans have known Downton Abbey 2 was almost certainly in the works since the first one blew away projections and became a box
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After retracting the initially planned holiday release date of Christmas 2021, the Downton Abbey sequel is back on the big-screen schedule. Producing partner Focus Features, the Comcast-owned indie studio that distributed the first Downton Abbey film, made the sequel a significant part of their presentation at CinemaCon in Las Vegas