While there's a lot of cozy media, there's something special about the "Downton Abbey" franchise. Filled with iconic characters, incredible outfits, and delicious (yet tasteful) storylines, the ever-evolving saga of the Crawley family and their impeccable staff never seems to lose its charm or magic. Of course, all good stories must end. With "A New Era" having already come out this past spring, fans might be at a loss as to what to watch next.
Well, have no fear, "Downton" fans! This list will solve your binge-watching worries. Here, we'll look at a selection of shows perfectly tailored to fill your "Downton" size void. From equivalent costume dramas to choices a little more outside the box, each series has a vibe similar to the extravagant adventures of Lady Mary, Mr. Carson, and the rest of the Crawley gang. So sit back with your cup of tea, and let's dive into...
Well, have no fear, "Downton" fans! This list will solve your binge-watching worries. Here, we'll look at a selection of shows perfectly tailored to fill your "Downton" size void. From equivalent costume dramas to choices a little more outside the box, each series has a vibe similar to the extravagant adventures of Lady Mary, Mr. Carson, and the rest of the Crawley gang. So sit back with your cup of tea, and let's dive into...
- 8/23/2022
- by Dalin Rowell
- Slash Film
Network: PBS.
Episodes: 26 (hour).
Seasons: Four.
TV show dates: October 16, 2016 — November 3, 2019.
Series status: Ended.
Performers include: Keeley Hawes, Josh O'Connor, Callum Woodhouse, Daisy Waterstone, Milo Parker, Alexis Georgoulis, Yorgos Karamihos, Lucy Black, Leslie Caron, Anna Savva, Errika Bigiou, and Ulric von der Esch.
TV show description:
Based on the autobiographical book trilogy from Gerald Durrell, The Durrells in Corfu TV show centers on the Durrell family during their years on the Greek Island of Corfu. The comedic drama centers on Louisa Durrell (Hawes) who, along with her four children, leaves 1930s England for the sunny Greek Isles.
A widow for the past eight years,...
Episodes: 26 (hour).
Seasons: Four.
TV show dates: October 16, 2016 — November 3, 2019.
Series status: Ended.
Performers include: Keeley Hawes, Josh O'Connor, Callum Woodhouse, Daisy Waterstone, Milo Parker, Alexis Georgoulis, Yorgos Karamihos, Lucy Black, Leslie Caron, Anna Savva, Errika Bigiou, and Ulric von der Esch.
TV show description:
Based on the autobiographical book trilogy from Gerald Durrell, The Durrells in Corfu TV show centers on the Durrell family during their years on the Greek Island of Corfu. The comedic drama centers on Louisa Durrell (Hawes) who, along with her four children, leaves 1930s England for the sunny Greek Isles.
A widow for the past eight years,...
- 11/4/2019
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
As they began preparing “The Trip to Greece,” the fourth installment in Michael Winterbottom’s acclaimed comedy franchise starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, the creative team returned to the time-tested formula that made the previous three chapters so successful: a combination of food, wanderlust and the comedians’ impeccable improv skills.
But with Winterbottom insisting this will be the franchise’s final installment, producer Melissa Parmenter, of Revolution Films, says the decision to re-create the epic journey of Odysseus from Troy to Ithaca in modern-day Greece gave the project added poignancy.
“Steve is continuing his journey back home, like Odysseus,” she says. “Being the last one for this idea of an epic journey is quite special.”
Nearly a decade after the “Trip” franchise launched, the long-time collaborators were on familiar ground in more ways than one. Last year Winterbottom, Parmenter and Coogan traveled to Greece to film “Greed,” a satire...
But with Winterbottom insisting this will be the franchise’s final installment, producer Melissa Parmenter, of Revolution Films, says the decision to re-create the epic journey of Odysseus from Troy to Ithaca in modern-day Greece gave the project added poignancy.
“Steve is continuing his journey back home, like Odysseus,” she says. “Being the last one for this idea of an epic journey is quite special.”
Nearly a decade after the “Trip” franchise launched, the long-time collaborators were on familiar ground in more ways than one. Last year Winterbottom, Parmenter and Coogan traveled to Greece to film “Greed,” a satire...
- 10/24/2019
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Italy’s expanding Effe TV has inked a flurry of deals for high-end international dramas from players such as Entertainment One, BBC Studios, Endemol Shine and ITV Studios Global Entertainment, from which it picked up the BBC’s adaptation of H.G. Wells’ classic novel “The War of the Worlds.”
All six acquired dramas are based on literary properties. The deals signal the ambition of Effe TV, a subsidiary of Italian publisher and bookseller Feltrinelli Group, “to bring top international products to Italian TV audiences,” said Riccardo Chiattelli, director of the company’s Laf channel. The channel airs on Sky Italia, the Italian unit of Comcast-owned paybox Sky.
Besides the BBC’s three-part “War of the Worlds,” which toplines Rafe Spall (“The Big Short”) and Eleanor Tomlinson (“Poldark”) and is being produced by ITV-owned Mammoth Screen, Laf has also picked up three seasons of crime drama “Cardinal,” an...
All six acquired dramas are based on literary properties. The deals signal the ambition of Effe TV, a subsidiary of Italian publisher and bookseller Feltrinelli Group, “to bring top international products to Italian TV audiences,” said Riccardo Chiattelli, director of the company’s Laf channel. The channel airs on Sky Italia, the Italian unit of Comcast-owned paybox Sky.
Besides the BBC’s three-part “War of the Worlds,” which toplines Rafe Spall (“The Big Short”) and Eleanor Tomlinson (“Poldark”) and is being produced by ITV-owned Mammoth Screen, Laf has also picked up three seasons of crime drama “Cardinal,” an...
- 11/7/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
As vacation season approaches, we've learned PBS has renewed The Durrells in Corfu TV show for a third season. We haven't received a press release from the network, and the premiere date is Tbd, but the renewal is confirmed in an interview with writer Simon Nye, posted to PBS.org. What's more, ITV has renewed The Durrells in Corfu for a fourth season in UK, where the drama goes by the simpler title, The Durrells. Based on the autobiographical book trilogy from Gerald Durrell, The Durrells in Corfu stars Keeley Hawes, Josh O’Connor, Callum Woodhouse, Daisy Waterstone, Milo Parker, Alexis Georgoulis, Yorgos Karamihos, Lucy Black, Leslie Caron, Anna Savva, Errika Bigiou, and Ulric von der Esch. The British dramafollows the Durrell family, during their years on the Greek island of Corfu. The comedic drama centers on struggling widow...
- 5/18/2018
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
The intrepid and fearless spirit of the British people is wonderfully told in a fascinating true story of one family’s adventure on the Greek isle of Corfu after the death of their father. Unplug from the hectic world with The Durrells in Corfu, the new Masterpiece PBS import. In it we meet a Bohemian and educated family who take a risk in pre-war England and abandon the familiar for the warmer, more mysterious and foreign island. This is a six-part adaptation of British naturalist and author Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals and its two sequels. The story recounts his...read more...
- 10/17/2016
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Rising young star Milo Parker is set to star as 11 year old Gerald Durrell alongside Keeley Hawes and Leslie Carron in a brand new ITV series The Durrells, based upon naturalist Gerald Durrell’s classic trilogy of Corfu memoirs including the much loved ‘My Family and Other Animals’.
Milo Parker (represented by Bwh) has just wrapped on Tim Burton's latest feature Peregrine's Home for Peculiars, and starred as Roger opposite Sir Ian McKellan in Mr Holmes. Milo was also seen as Conner in sci-fi action adventure Robot Overlords. In The Durrells he plays young Gerry who is obsessed with animals and about to be thrown out of school. Happy to spend hours staring at beetles on a wall, he can go missing for days on epic nature trails and turns the house in Corfu into a zoo.
The story focuses upon Louisa Durrell, played by Keeley Hawes, whose life is in meltdown.
Milo Parker (represented by Bwh) has just wrapped on Tim Burton's latest feature Peregrine's Home for Peculiars, and starred as Roger opposite Sir Ian McKellan in Mr Holmes. Milo was also seen as Conner in sci-fi action adventure Robot Overlords. In The Durrells he plays young Gerry who is obsessed with animals and about to be thrown out of school. Happy to spend hours staring at beetles on a wall, he can go missing for days on epic nature trails and turns the house in Corfu into a zoo.
The story focuses upon Louisa Durrell, played by Keeley Hawes, whose life is in meltdown.
- 8/19/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Keeley Hawes will lead the cast of ITV's latest period drama, and as a bonus she'll get to travel to Corfu.
The Durrells will be a six-part series set in 1935, and is based on Gerald Durrell's trilogy of memoirs, including My Family and Other Animals.
Legendary actress and dancer Leslie Caron will also star in the series, along with popular Greek actor Alexis Georgoulis.
The series focuses on Louisa Durrell (Hawes), whose husband died years before and his money has almost run out. Her four children Larry (Josh O'Connor), Leslie (Callum Woodhouse), Margo (Daisy Waterstone) and Gerry (Milo Parker) are running riot and making life very difficult.
Louisa decides to escape from Britain for a new adventure in Corfu, taking her family with her. Georgoulis will play the dependable Spiro Halkiopoulos, while Caron will appear as Countess Mavrodaki, who hires Margo as her companion.
Yorgos Karamihos will play local...
The Durrells will be a six-part series set in 1935, and is based on Gerald Durrell's trilogy of memoirs, including My Family and Other Animals.
Legendary actress and dancer Leslie Caron will also star in the series, along with popular Greek actor Alexis Georgoulis.
The series focuses on Louisa Durrell (Hawes), whose husband died years before and his money has almost run out. Her four children Larry (Josh O'Connor), Leslie (Callum Woodhouse), Margo (Daisy Waterstone) and Gerry (Milo Parker) are running riot and making life very difficult.
Louisa decides to escape from Britain for a new adventure in Corfu, taking her family with her. Georgoulis will play the dependable Spiro Halkiopoulos, while Caron will appear as Countess Mavrodaki, who hires Margo as her companion.
Yorgos Karamihos will play local...
- 8/18/2015
- Digital Spy
Shooting starts next month in Corfu on six-part drama, The Durrells, which Deadline recently revealed has been ordered by ITV. Line Of Duty and The Casual Vacancy‘s Keeley Hawes has now been set to star as Louisa Durrell with legendary French actress Leslie Caron as the shrewd and exotic Countess Mavrodaki. Written by Simon Nye (Men Behaving Badly) and produced by Sally Woodward Gentle’s Sid Gentle Films, The Durrells is based on conservationist Gerald Durrell's trilogy…...
- 8/18/2015
- Deadline TV
ITV has commissioned a new six-part drama series written by Simon Nye.
The Durrells is based upon Gerald Durrell's trilogy of Corfu memoirs that includes My Family and Other Animals.
"Gerald Durrell's novels are some of the warmest, wittiest books of the last century," said executive producer Sally Woodward Gentle.
"It is no wonder they are so well loved. It is a real treat to be working on them with the brilliant Simon Nye. I hope that his obvious love of the characters and the material will be hugely infectious."
The series has been commissioned by ITV's director of drama Steve November and controller of drama Victoria Fea.
November said: "The Durrells is a rollercoaster adventure drama. The characters are struggling with the eternal dilemmas of family life when Louisa sets her heart on moving to Corfu.
"It's a unique and engaging drama and we're delighted to be...
The Durrells is based upon Gerald Durrell's trilogy of Corfu memoirs that includes My Family and Other Animals.
"Gerald Durrell's novels are some of the warmest, wittiest books of the last century," said executive producer Sally Woodward Gentle.
"It is no wonder they are so well loved. It is a real treat to be working on them with the brilliant Simon Nye. I hope that his obvious love of the characters and the material will be hugely infectious."
The series has been commissioned by ITV's director of drama Steve November and controller of drama Victoria Fea.
November said: "The Durrells is a rollercoaster adventure drama. The characters are struggling with the eternal dilemmas of family life when Louisa sets her heart on moving to Corfu.
"It's a unique and engaging drama and we're delighted to be...
- 6/18/2015
- Digital Spy
Exclusive: ITV has commissioned The Durrells, a six-part series, written by Simon Nye (Men Behaving Badly) and produced by Sid Gentle Films. The Durrells is based on Gerald Durrell's classic trilogy of Corfu memoirs including the much loved My Family And Other Animals. The story focuses upon Louisa Durrell whose life is in meltdown. Widowed years ago and running out of money, Louise has four unruly ‘children’ to look after: Larry, Leslie, Margo and Gerry, all going off…...
- 6/18/2015
- Deadline TV
Wildlife film-maker and natural history broadcaster who worked for the BBC
Jeffery Boswall, who has died of cancer aged 81, helped to cultivate the BBC Natural History Unit's global reputation for wildlife film-making. The popular children's series Animal Magic, which began in 1962, gave Boswall his first TV experience as a producer and director after working in radio. The series' presenter Johnny Morris – dressed as a zookeeper for the filmed inserts – had a gentle, humorous style and put words into animals' mouths by mimicking what he envisaged them to be saying. Gerald Durrell was also a presenter of the early programmes.
Boswall then worked on Look, presented by Peter Scott, the renowned conservationist and leader of ornithological expeditions worldwide. The Private Life of the Kingfisher (1966), one of the episodes he produced for the wildlife series, was the Natural History Unit's first programme to be broadcast in colour. Filmed over a year on the river Test in Hampshire,...
Jeffery Boswall, who has died of cancer aged 81, helped to cultivate the BBC Natural History Unit's global reputation for wildlife film-making. The popular children's series Animal Magic, which began in 1962, gave Boswall his first TV experience as a producer and director after working in radio. The series' presenter Johnny Morris – dressed as a zookeeper for the filmed inserts – had a gentle, humorous style and put words into animals' mouths by mimicking what he envisaged them to be saying. Gerald Durrell was also a presenter of the early programmes.
Boswall then worked on Look, presented by Peter Scott, the renowned conservationist and leader of ornithological expeditions worldwide. The Private Life of the Kingfisher (1966), one of the episodes he produced for the wildlife series, was the Natural History Unit's first programme to be broadcast in colour. Filmed over a year on the river Test in Hampshire,...
- 8/27/2012
- by Anthony Hayward
- The Guardian - Film News
When Mark Hall's death was announced, one of Britain's leading animation businesses put a message on Twitter: "Deeply saddened by the passing of our dear friend Mark Hall. Our company would not be here without him." Hall neither founded that business nor took any part in it. But its directors learned their trade under his unique guidance and inspiration, and never forgot it.
In his long professional life, Mark had two consistent passions. One was for filming stories by great children's writers, in ways which would respect and amplify the original work. The other was for teaching the craft and technique of animated film. The company he founded with Brian Cosgrove was born in the 1960s, when UK animation was a failing cottage industry and even Disney was in the doldrums. So they daringly built their team of film-makers from scratch, bringing new young recruits out of art colleges...
In his long professional life, Mark had two consistent passions. One was for filming stories by great children's writers, in ways which would respect and amplify the original work. The other was for teaching the craft and technique of animated film. The company he founded with Brian Cosgrove was born in the 1960s, when UK animation was a failing cottage industry and even Disney was in the doldrums. So they daringly built their team of film-makers from scratch, bringing new young recruits out of art colleges...
- 11/20/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
LONDON -- The BBC will head up its family-friendly Christmas lineup with the second season of its hit drama Doctor Who, in which David Tennant takes over the role of the Time Lord reprised last year by Christopher Eccleston. The BBC1 season opener sees the Doctor and his sidekick Rose Tyler -- played by Billie Piper -- come under attack from a sinister band of masked Santas, while a monstrous super race, the Sycorax, are on a mission to conquer the earth. BBC1 is also bringing new family drama to the network in the form of Simon Nye's new screen version of Gerald Durrell's classic 1930s autobiographical drama My Family and Other Animals.
- 11/21/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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