Julian Fellowes

The Gilded Age review – it takes some nerve to give Oscar Wilde a cameo … then grant him no good lines

Though Julian Fellowes’ tale of New York aristos never fizzes as it should, you will still swallow it whole … even if it feels wrong with every fibre of your being

Chitra Ramaswamy

30, Oct, 2023 @10:10 PM

Downton Abbey: A New Era review – an artless cash-in with the Crawleys

Reheated plot lines abound as the regular cast and writer Julian Fellowes go over old ground in their second big-screen outing

Wendy Ide

30, Apr, 2022 @2:00 PM

Downton Abbey: A New Era review – cheerfully risible second helping of snobby melodrama

The second – and hopefully last – film spun off from Julian Fellowes’s successful TV series is as hammy, silly, and undeniably entertaining as ever

Peter Bradshaw

25, Apr, 2022 @11:00 PM

The Chaperone review – dishing dirt in well-turned hats and hair

Semi-true story from Julian Fellowes sets churchgoing Kansas lady the challenge of keeping the girl about to become Louise Brooks in line in 1920s New York

Leslie Felperin

15, Feb, 2022 @4:00 PM

The week in TV: The Responder; Trigger Point; The Gilded Age; Survivors: Portraits of the Holocaust

As a Liverpool copper in meltdown, Martin Freeman excels in Tony Schumacher’s unmissable drama; the clock’s ticking for ITV’s new bomb disposal series; and Downton Abbey, New York-style

Barbara Ellen

30, Jan, 2022 @9:30 AM

The Gilded Age review – Julian Fellowes’ stinky rich New Yorkers are sheer agony

Forget Downton … here’s the new and definitely not improved Brownstone Abbey – and these posh Americans spout nothing but drivel. Does Fellowes actually write this stuff in his sleep?

Lucy Mangan

25, Jan, 2022 @10:35 PM

TV tonight: a juicy period drama from Downton’s Julian Fellowes

Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon enjoy their wealth in The Gilded Age. Plus, a new look at the Krays. Here’s what to watch this evening

Hollie Richardson, Phil Harrison and Ali Catterall

25, Jan, 2022 @6:20 AM

Julian Fellowes turns Half a Sixpence rewrite Kipps into winning fun

In a surprisingly class-conscious stage adaptation of the HG Wells-inspired musical from the Downton Abbey creator on Sky, Charlie Stemp radiates kindly innocence

Michael Billington

30, Dec, 2021 @1:48 PM

Downton Abbey film sequel set for Christmas 2021 release

A followup to the 2019 film is currently in production, with Dominic West, Hugh Dancy and Laura Haddock joining returning cast members

Catherine Shoard

19, Apr, 2021 @2:38 PM

From Downton to Belgravia: a guide to the posh programmes of Julian Fellowes

Blustering aristos, parasols, cutlery-based infractions – here’s how to distinguish between his indistinguishable shows

Sarah Dempster

21, Apr, 2020 @8:00 AM

David Squires on … The English Premier League Game

Our cartoonist envisages Julian Fellowes being commissioned to reboot the end of the English league season

David Squires

31, Mar, 2020 @9:53 AM

The English Game review – Julian Fellowes football drama is an own goal

The Downton Abbey creator looks to the origins of the beautiful game, and ‘t’m’ill workers’ and ‘t’toffs’ who battled it out in the 1879 FA Cup, in this dire Netflix series