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Maggie Smith
In ITV Drama
Maggie Smith, Penelope Wilton and Hugh Bonneville are to lead
the cast of ITV’s forthcoming masters and servants drama Downton Abbey.
Written by Julian Fellowes, the drama will also star Elizabeth McGovern,
Phyllis Logan and Joanne Froggatt.
Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey will portray the
lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them.
ITV director of drama Laura Mackie said: “We’re delighted with the stellar
cast who have come together for Downton Abbey. It’s testament to the quality
of Julian’s wonderful scripts and the calibre of the production team that
some of the brightest and best of the UK’s leading actors have come on
board.”
Downton Abbey will be produced by Carnival Films and NBC Universal and will
transmit on ITV1 in autumn 2010.
Seven episodes of the drama have been ordered, with the first running as a
90-minute film.
17:30
February 20
2010 - waveguide.co.uk
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EastEnders - More Than 16m Tune In
Around16.6 million viewers tuned in to Friday's EastEnders
episode to see who murdered Archie Mitchell, according to unofficial
overnight figures.
The killer was finally revealed in the 30-minute episode, which was filmed
and broadcast live to mark the BBC One soap's 25th anniversary.
It featured 51 members of the cast, who had been rehearsing for three days.
In the finale, Stacey Slater, played by actress Lacey Turner, admitted she
was Archie's murderer - the culmination of a long-running plotline.
Turner said did not know she would be unmasked as the killer until 20
minutes before the live transmission.
The live episode also featured the departure of Bradley Branning, played by
Charlie Clements, who fell to his death off a building in Albert Square. He
and Stacey had got married for the second time in the previous episode.
Turner lost her voice ahead of filming, prompting speculation in the tabloid
newspapers earlier in the week that she might not even be well enough to
appear in the episode.
17:00
February 20
2010 - waveguide.co.uk
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