Downton Abbey. Yay!

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Totally irrelevant as it's probably a couple of weeks till it airs - but - just wanted to say...

Can't wait!!!

Maybe a discussion about what may happen? I don't know. Some link before it starts.

Ok, now I'm sounding a tad obsessive!

I am totally excited! DH and I watched the last Christmas episode the other night - I had already seen it but he hadn't for some reason - but he already knew about the shock ending.

Do you think it will pick up where it left off or will it be a year or two later?

I saw an interview on the itv website stating it's 6 months after the tragedy.

We had quite a gang here for the last few series.... count me in the Ridiculously Excited camp!

Ooh yay! Apparently they've locked the actors into 2 year contracts so there can't be anymore dramatic exits being squished in ruining Christmas.

I've been watching the re-runs of the other series' on itv3 (I missed the 1st series completely) and its amazing how utterly ridiculous the stories are when run together so quickly. Mr Bates is a dodgy geezer. Fact.

Can't wait! I love Downton. I get excited every time I see the trailer!

Mary gets a new love interest, I'll bet on it. I hope Edith 'flies' in this series. It never ends happily for her. Their cousin is obviously in it to replace Sybil. I know Downton isn't historically accurate, but I couldn't give a fig. I'll watch the brill Mary Beard if I want a history doc. It's a nice programme to watch and much as I liked watching Luther and Broadchurch, light froth is good.

I love Downton! I'm so excited!

Even though it has been full of misery. I'm hoping for things to be a bit more cheerful now.

My ideal scenario would be to send mary and child to New york to find a filthy rich husband and become the queen of society " a la edith warthon" I'd throw in the dowager lady grantham locking horns with shirkey mc lane for good measure.
Meanwhile Edith would be wooed by a cynical peniless hungarian royal and desilusinned, do her coming out in paris among the hemingway set. Or maybe become a foreign correspondent in the spanish civil war?

Master you should nudge Julian Fellows off writing duties and replace him - I'd love your version!

I'm sure that it'll be too Mary-centric for my liking!

I think that she has about three guys after her, doesn't she?

I do keep hoping for a storyline for Edith!

Is Shirley Maclaine going to be in it again? I didn't think much of her part last time.

It starts on 22 September. 6 months after the tragedy and yes to Shirley MacLaine.

Is the dowager going to be in this one much? I thought I read that maggie smith wasn't up for as heavy a workload. She's just brilliant too. Love her!

I'm convinced Rose will be paired off with Branson at some point.

Apparently no deaths "just yet" and Lady Edith gets to have her wicked way with her nice editor.

The roaring 20's & scandals galore, marvellous!!!!

Someone remind me what is up with Nice Editor's wife? Is she non compos mentis somewhere?

it's on the 22nd if I'm correct!

yay!

Hearts I think that's the inference but don't remember exactly.

aha Hearts

After extensive googling research I found this!

"In the previous series, a despairing Edith, played by Laura Carmichael, had appeared to resist the charms of Mr Gregson, played by Charles Edwards, insisting there could be no future for them as a couple after discovering his secret – a wife in a mental asylum whom he cannot divorce."

oooh all very Jane Eyre!!

Ooooh MissMarple - thank you - 'tis very gothic Victorian is it not?

Insane wife in a mental asylum. Poor woman, she probably just needs some mood stabilizers and perhaps an anti-psychotic or two

There but for the grace of God etc.

Was the baby named at the end of the last series? I was wondering if they'd used George after the new baby prince, or whether it was decided before.

No, I don't think it was.

And six months on?

JF doesn't do funerals, does he??

I read somewhere that the script was written with the baby being named George months before Royal baby was born. so it is a coincidence (apparently)