Downton Abbey - ITV1

Exactly what I did - and what I plan to do for the rest of the series.. :)

The increase in adverts by ITV is counter-productive imo. It just puts me off watching it's programmes when they're first shown.
 
I had really convinced myself that footman Thomas was being played by Mark Owen from Take That.

I kept wondering how he managed to take acting lessons and do all the rehearsals, what with his music stuff going on.

Then my OH mentioned that it was Liam from Coronation Street!
 
Does anyone think there maybe a bit of a romance between Brendan Coyle (Bates) and the HeadMaid(Joanne Frogget). she does seem quite keen of him. Can't blame her myself he is rather dashing for a valet:o:o
 
I haven't read every single edition of the Daily Mail since 1939 or even since 1960, so I do not personally know whether the paper has ever apologised for its support of 1930s fascism. However, why should they? Lord Beaverbrook thought it right at the time, and the editor just had to follow his lead (or be out of a job during a recession) so any apology should be from Lord Beaverbrook himself, not subsequent editors of the newspaper.

I knew a Radio producer who interviewed Diana Moseley, who, my friend said, had the most charisma of anyone they had ever interviewed, including the royals, intellectuals and others. By the end of the interview, my friend said, they felt almost hypnotised into supporting fascism. (Until they left the studio, went home and rationalised everything.)

The Daily Mail was always aimed at lower middle-class women. Even today's readership is said to be at more than 50% female.

It was a much better paper under Sir David English. It is true that it has dumbed down, but so has much else in the UK. Now, particularly online, they have oodles of ridiculous and irritating stories about zelebs, presumably to compete with The Sun and The Star for online clicks. And I particularly hate those double-page spreaRAB of 6 women wearing almost identical dresses with boring stories to tell about their (enter issues here).

To be honest, I don't actually buy newspapers any more. The DM is 2.50 euros here in Greece and others are even more expensive. It is free to read it (and any other paper) online. I've always liked The Independent and rather like The Telegraph lately, so I'm not particularly confined to the DM, but do feel there are far worse papers to slag off.
 
I think the sultans changed the name to Istanbul back in the fifteenth century because they had no love of Constantine and the Romans, and while most English people may have still used the old name of Constantinople a hundred years ago (just as some people still say Ceylon, Bombay, Burma, Peking etc) it is unlikely that a Turkish person would. I don't remember who used the name in the programme.
 
It's really great to see ITV make a lavish drama. Even though I have to watch it on satellite as STV won't show it! :( It is very soap opera and doesn't have stand out characters like Upstairs Downstairs does, but it's enjoyable.
 
Thanks, Blakey. That was quite a lot of money then.

I always find it confusing when they talk about money in old books or films, especially in Jane Austen's books when they talk about having so much money per year. I never know how rich they really are.
 
Apart from the background scene during one of the entailment dialogues when you could see JIm Carter french kissing Maggie Smith in the shrubbery, I think it was.
 
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