I'll own up to my mistakes and will make the corrections with a polite smile on my face.) Image: BBC. Other new additions to the cast include Alex Kingston as the younger half-sister of Maud, Blanche Mottershead and Laura Haddock as maid Beryl Ballard. Rose soon starts to work as a bus conductor during the day, and does her duties in the evening. Although not as sumptuous as Downton Abbey, I enjoyed the first episode of Upstairs Downstairs. Any ads you see are placed here by Wordpress. Most disappointing. Just questions dangling. In August 2010, the BBC announced that the planned two 90-minute shows would instead consist of three hour-long episodes, with Keeley Hawes, Ed Stoppard, Anne Reid, Claire Foy, Adrian Scarborough, Art Malik, Ellie Kendrick, Blake Ritson, and Nico Mirallegro joining Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins in the cast. Holt said that Rosemary Anne Sisson wrote so "we knew exactly how it felt to be politician, a VAD or the wife of a serving officer in 1916". Composer Carl Davis was brought in for the second series, composing new incidental music, occasionally using elements from Alexander Faris's original theme for the original 1971 series — which was popularised as a single release by Mantovani. However, she said that Sisson did not "breathe life into the downstairs menage", and said the servants were becoming "set and predictable". Click here to watch Episode One.

The suspense is killing me! Background.

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Upstairs, Downstairs includes new service and improvement tiles along with a ton of new casual and prestige guests. Maude dictates her memoirs to her secretary. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Vic Sanborn and Jane Austen's World with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. The acting was not convincing: either too arch (the otherwise wonderful Keeley Hawes) or too humble (Jean Marsh). I hadn’t realized it until I read comments about UD but I, too, felt it was really rushed. Rose is back. Sir Hallam Holland, a young diplomat, moves into the townhouse along with his wife, Lady Agnes, in January 1936 shortly before the death of King George V. They engage former parlourmaid Rose Buck, now running her own agency for domestic servants, to find them staff as they renovate the house to its former glory after years of being mothballed. Clarice Thackeray is a widow. 6. Ivy (Ellie Kendrick) turns out to be a tease. And as for the costumes; the 30s was not exactly a great time for fashion. Yes, lots of questions, but not thrown up by a suspenseful plot. I’d hate to have had to work in that household with the expectations they would have had for their “staff”. I didn’t see any passion. Julie Andrews is the narrator. I have adored Jane Austen almost all of my life. Will we ever warm up to Pritchard and Mrs. Thackeray? [17], The second series of six episodes began on 19 February 2012, with an audience of 7.78 million, but by the time it ended on 25 March, the viewing figures had dropped to 5.22 million. I wonder if we got a greatly truncated version on Masterpiece. Her turn as Lady Maude Holland, the dowager mama does not quite rival Maggie Smith’s Violet in Downton Abbey, but unlike Maggie, Eileen was given a most interesting, very capable, quite mysterious and handsome secretary – Mr. Amanjit Singh. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. If you would like to share a new site, or point out an error, please email me. He looked so much like King Edward VIII it made me gasp. I am a proud lifetime member of the Jane Austen Society of North America. Will Johnny the footman, whose passion for the nubile (but very underage Ivy) has put him in the clinker, be able to highfoot it back to Eaton Place?

Passion in Eaton Place (Keeley Hawes and Ed Stoppard). I was shocked at the actor they used for the German diplomat. Vic Sanborn, founder of this blog, is supported by a team of talented and knowledgeable writers about Jane Austen and the Regency era. Too many people stomping around, doing “heil, Hitler” in aweful brown or black, which may or may not be that flattering. Richard refuses to help him get back onto the front line from his current staff job.

Home Upstairs Downstairs Lady Agnes/Keeley Hawes Lady Persie / Claire Foy Blanche/Portia ... Mr Pritchard and Violet Whissett. The series is set from 1936 to the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. I agree that it seemed a little rushed and choppy, but I plan to tune in for episode 2. 4. […] Watch Upstairs Downstairs Online Tags Masterpiece ClassicPBS PBS Masterpiece Classic PBS PBS Movie Adaptation PBS Movie Review Upstairs Downstairs 2010: […]. It was confirmed on 21 April 2012 that Upstairs Downstairs would not be returning for a third series.[18]. The writer, Rosemary Anne Sisson, had used the diaries of Lady Cynthia Asquith, who like Georgina was a society VAD nurse, while writing this episode. (Jean Marsh was one of the original creators of the show.) I’m inclined to dislike her for a number of reasons, but perhaps I’m missing information. Hi Sharon, the comment about Jean aging 30 years in 6 was meant to be ironic, not mean-spirited. Click here to watch Episode One. Jean Marsh, after suffering from a stroke and heart attack, was unable to attend the majority of filming for the series; scripts were altered shortly before filming to accommodate her absence. Regretfully, due to SPAMMERS, we will no longer accept comments on posts that were published over 30 days ago. Since Wallis Simpson has appeared in 3 recent things I can come up with (Any Human Heart, Downton Abbey, and now UD), I think it is time for somebody, BBC or PBS, to do a program on her.
Tug of War is the fifth episode of the fourth series of the television period drama Upstairs, Downstairs. Created and written by Heidi Thomas, it is a continuation of the London Weekend Television series Upstairs, Downstairs, which ran from 1971 to 1975 on ITV. The second and last series consists of six episodes, and first aired between 19 February 2012 and 25 March 2012.