Comments on: Watching Downton Abbey https://lettersblogatory.com/2024/02/03/watching-downton-abbey/ The Blog of International Judicial Assistance Sun, 04 Feb 2024 18:13:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Ted Folkman https://lettersblogatory.com/2024/02/03/watching-downton-abbey/#comment-10286 Sun, 04 Feb 2024 18:13:15 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=32562#comment-10286 In reply to Salem.

Thanks for the correction regarding ITV!

]]> By: Salem https://lettersblogatory.com/2024/02/03/watching-downton-abbey/#comment-10279 Sun, 04 Feb 2024 10:26:21 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=32562#comment-10279 PBS didn’t make Downton Abbey. It was made by Carnival for ITV, which is the UK’s largest commercial TV station.

The business with the entail is the main storyline of the first two seasons. But the focus is less on the law, and more on the social, romantic, etc events that happen in the shadow of the law. Think Jane Austen – there’s normally an entail, but the story doesn’t play out in courtrooms.

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