‘Downton Abbey’ Season 3 starts Sunday
Posted January 6, 2013 12:41 pm.
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Cousin Matthew, Lady Mary and the rest of the clan will be back to their post-Edwardian Era shenanigans when the third season of Downton Abbey starts on Sunday.
The period drama has become Britain’s biggest television export since launching three years ago.
It has been sold to more than 100 countries and is up for three Golden Globe Awards this year, including best television series — drama, best actress in a TV drama (Michelle Dockery), and best supporting actress (Maggie Smith).
“We’ve set a show in a very recognizably English genre,” said Downton Abbey executive producer Gareth Neame.
“It’s a genre that can’t be done in America and isn’t really done anywhere else in the world. It’s expressly our territory, and there’s a lot of interest in that world.
“How the class system worked and how aristocrats lived and the entire environment — it’s very recognizable, familiar territory, but we have spun it in a very contemporary fashion.”
Downton Abbey is set in an Edwardian country house at the turn of the 20th Century.
The series portrays the life of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them.
A fourth series is in production.
Hollywood is taking greater interest in the actors who appear in Downton.
Dan Stevens, who plays Matthew Crawley, could be joining his colleague Benedict Cumberbatch in a planned film about whistle-blowing website Wikileaks.
Downton Abbey Season 3 airs on Sundays at 9 p.m., Jan. 6-Feb. 17, on PBS.
— With files from CityNews.ca staff
