It's Upstairs Downton! ; (or How the Bbc's Big New Drama Will Have a Very Familiar Feel...)

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Downton Abbey has been gone f rom our tV screens for only three weeks, but still we feel bereft without its soothing sunday-evening presence. Happily, there's another aristocratic costume extravaganza on the way - the long-awaited return of Upstairs Downstairs on BBC1.

The original became one of the most popular television series of all time, watched by 30million people in 50 countries and running for 68 episodes on ItV from 1971 to 1975.

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It's Upstairs Downton! ; (or How the Bbc's Big New Drama Will Have a Very Familiar Feel...)

With its ground-breaking exploration of the class tensions and sexual scandals between servants and gentry in the face of a rapidly changing society, it inspired a host of later costume dramas - including Downton Abbey, written by Julian Fellowes.

The new incarnation of Upstairs Downstairs takes up the story of 165 Eaton Place in 1936, six years after ...

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