Downton Abbey Series 2

Around 12 million people watched the first series of Downton Abbey and these fans will be excited to know the second series is will be airing in the Uk on Sunday 18 September 2011. United States fans will have to wait until 8th January 2012.

The first series was last Autumns' Uk Tv hit which offered an escape into Britain's aristocratic austerity. The show is a British television duration drama series, produced by British media firm Carnival Films for Itv. The Edwardian drama is brilliantly written by Julian Fellowes, with some great input from the historical specialist Alastair Bruce. With the first series being such a hit, the pressure is on for the second series to do just as well.

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A recent press screening has given an comprehension into how the series is going to pan out and it looks good. The first series had ended on an August 1914 cliff-hanger as Britain declared war on Germany. The favorite duration drama will pick up the story in 1916, two years into the war. It opens with scenes of noise mud and chaos at the battle of Somme. A heavy explosion of a shell in the battle of Somme will be the chance scenes with Matthew Crawley, apparently looking rather fit in his soldiery uniform, is in the trenches bravely important his men to battle.

The first major development of this second series is all about love. Matthew has just got engaged to a young woman Miss Lavinia Swire who is played by Zoe Boyle. Dowager Countess of Grantham is not too impressed with this revelation even though she has a new love interest herself, Sir Richard Carlisle who works for the local press. But it seems quite clear he is not a patch on the beautiful Matthew.

Like the first serious, the writer Julian Fellowes ensures there is abundance of suspense, emotion and some no ifs ands or buts funny moments. Like the first series, the second is fantastic for its obsessive attentiveness to detail. With a young audience the writers and producers were keen to show the real communal impact the war had on community at that time.

From all of the press reviews is seems this series is set to be someone else great success giving the Sunday Tv viewings a boost and something to look transmit too on a Sunday evening.

Even more good news is that the writer is already working on scripts for the third serious which will day Downton Abbey into the swinging 1920's. I for one can't wait, even though the second series hasn't even aired yet. My Sunday evenings haven't been the same since the first series ended so I seriously can't wait to see all the trials and tribulation that the war brings to Downton Abbey.

Downton Abbey Series 2