Julian Fellowes

GOODBYE

Whatever else we can expect from the final season of the hit period soap opera, expect Julian Fellowes’s honeyed view of the past and social order to stay intact.

XOXO

Ed Westwick, who played the infamous Chuck Bass in Gossip Girl, talks to Erin Cunningham about his role as Tybalt in the new Romeo & Juliet film.

CREATORS DISH

Of course the U.K. might be fascinated with its faded imperial past, but why would the egalitarian U.S. lap up the pedigreed drama of ‘Downton Abbey’? An interview at London’s National Gallery with creators Julian Fellowes and Gareth Neame, sponsored by Credit Suisse and moderated by Newsweek and The Daily Beast editor in chief Tina Brown, went some way to explaining the show’s trans-Atlantic success.

Abbey’s Road

Can 'Downton' topple 'Mad Men' at the Emmys later this month? Jace Lacob talks to creator Julian Fellowes, as well as actors Hugh Bonneville, Brendan Coyle, Michelle Dockery, and others about Season 2, WWI, and the show’s 16 Emmy nominations. Part 2, in which Fellowes and the cast discuss details about Season 3 of 'Downton Abbey,' which launches on Sunday in the U.K., can be read here.