Masterpiece Classic | Downton Abbey & Upstairs Downstairs (coming in April to PBS) Video Clips. Duration : 0.52 Mins.
www.pbs.org You loved Masterpiece Classic's Downton Abbey --which you can watch until 2/22 at www.pbs.org Coming this April, Masterpiece brings you return of Upstairs Downstairs. It's 1936, and sweeping away the cobwebs from the most famous address in Masterpiece history, a new couple moves into 165 Eaton Place. Thus resumes the romantic, moving and epic story of Upstairs Downstairs, more than three decades after its last episode on PBS. With a script by acclaimed screenwriter Heidi Thomas (Cranford), the stellar cast of Upstairs Downstairs includes the original series creators Eileen Atkins (Cranford) and Jean Marsh (Sense and Sensibility) along with Claire Foy (Little Dorrit) and Art Malik (The Jewel In The Crown) among others. Lavishly produced, beautifully acted, and eagerly awaited by millions of fans, Upstairs Downstairs is one of the jewels in the crown of Masterpiece's 40th season. Learn more at www.pbs.org
First episode available for viewing at video.pbs.org Sundays, January 9 through January 30, 2011, at 9pm ET on PBS (check local listings) MASTERPIECE's 40th anniversary season premieres with a quintessentially MASTERPIECE production, Downton Abbey, an Edwardian-era spellbinder created by Oscar-winning writer Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park). Starring Hugh Bonneville (Notting Hill), Maggie Smith (Harry Potter), Elizabeth McGovern (A Room with a View), Dan Stevens (Sense & Sensibility) and a country-house full of other great actors, the miniseries set audience records during its recent UK broadcast and was hailed as "a sumptuous, instantly riveting glimpse of a world—and family—on the verge of profound change" by the London Daily Telegraph.
MASTERPIECE has been honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with 25 nominations for the 2011 Primetime Emmy® Awards - the highest number of nominations the series has received in its 40-year history. Among the nominations are: -Outstanding Miniseries or Movie - Downton Abbey -Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie - Elizabeth McGovern for Downton Abbey; Jean Marsh for Upstairs Downstairs -Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie - Maggie Smith for Downton Abbey; Eileen Atkins for Upstairs Downstairs -Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special Brian Percival for Downton Abbey www.pbs.org video.vegaspbs.org
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