Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out.
From Julian Fellowes
I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class.
I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.
Of course I love winning things; I can't tell you how much I enjoy it.
One of the things that you're not really in control of - apart from everything - is your smell.
I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.
The great houses of Britain have, for centuries, been the guardians of much of our history, not just of the families who built and lived in them, but of the people who worked there, of the local area, of all of us.
I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast talker it's very important to invite another so they can talk to each other. Otherwise they spoil the newspaper reading and everything else.
Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.
I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.
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