TV Series· 2010· Drama
Downton Abbey: it draws on 2 recorded sources.
The works this one is recorded as drawing on.
Julian Fellowes won an Academy Award for writing Gosford Park, and Downton Abbey grew out of it: a great English country house seen at once from upstairs and downstairs, with the aristocratic family and their servants given equal weight. The producer Gareth Neame asked Fellowes for a series in the same world.
Events, places, movements and ideas outside fiction that this work is recorded as drawing on.
Real world
The series opens in 1912 with news that the heirs to Downton were lost on the Titanic, and follows the household through World War I.