Downton Abbey - anyone excited?

[turnitup]

Im so ready for a good period drama,

can't wait

massively fancy Hugh Bonneville

Aitch. i hate this sort of thing as it's usually crap. convince me it's not as bad as i think it's going to be.

Fuchsia me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well he's mine

it's not on in jockoland, db, you can have yet another squizz at billy connolly's testicles once again.

Well that's total bollocks. I refuse to believe Lord Very Posh's reaction to the sinking of Titanic would be - 'Oh dear some poor folks will have got it in the neck!'

just waaaaaaaaaaaaaait.

looks good so far....

nowt to do with the period drama, but can i just say that the combination of squizz, with its connotations of squeezing and jizz, and billy connolly and testicles in the same sentence has made me a little bit sick in my mouth, aitch...

Well i'm enjoying it so far.

well bluebump is enjoying it so far, stripey.

no accounting for taste, is there...?

Haha

I'm here and loving it!! How can you not with Hugh Bonneville and Dame Maggie??!

It's the lady who is in Benidorm that I can't take seriously in this. I half expect her to swear and get stuck into a pint of lager.

Just seen the cast list and Robert Bathurst (of Cold Feet fame) is in a few of the episodes too!

Oh I love it.

i keep thinking it's going to be like the other period drama one that my MIL watches that was on recently. terry wogan was in a children in need episode.she made me watch one episode where the tramp turned out to be loaded. what a load of shit.

is it better than that?

I wasnt expecting that!!!!

I think your mean Larkrise nevergoogle

Bates was in that too, playing another Mr Proud.

I am a bit confused about all this estate business though. Why was it ok for the estate to go to the men how died on The Titanic, but not to the 3rd cousin??

Ooooooohhhhh

Wasn't expecting THAT!!

ooooooh

I think it was okay to go to the cousin as the the daughter Mary was going to marry his son and therefore end up with the estate in the end. I think that's what was happening...

mary is a pleasingly ghastly woman, isn't she?

And yay, he saved Bates