Wednesday, November 10, 2010

The Abbey habit

There are quite a lot of gags around based on the ITV drama series Downton Abbey at the moment.  Private Eye has a elegant cover and a Coalition parody inside which looks set to run and run.  And tonight, in the London Evening Standard, Roy Greenslade considers Mark Thompson as the Earl of Grantham — a liberal gentleman with a goodish fortune trying to protect an institution faced by problems in the servant quarters.

It's worth noting that Downton is a Carnival Films/Masterpiece co-production for ITV.  The Managing Director of Carnival is Gareth Neame, ex-BBC; the Creative Director is Sally Woodward Gentle, ex-BBC; Executive Producer Christopher Aird is ex-BBC; and Development Executive Sam Symons is ex-BBC. 

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