Doctor Thorne: trailer
Is this the next Downton Abbey from writer Julian Fellowes?
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Doctor Thorne is the latest period drama from Julian Fellowes -which already has some asking if it’s the next Downton Abbey?
But the tone of this trailer looks quite different.
The three-part drama stars Tom Hollander, Ian McShane and Alison Brie and premieres in the UK this weekend.
The story centres around Dr Thomas Thorne, who lives in the village of Greshamsbury in Barsetshire, with his beautiful niece, Mary, a girl blessed with every gift except money. Mary Thorne has grown up alongside the Gresham sisters – Augusta, Beatrice and Alexandrina and their handsome brother Frank – whose home is the great house and estate at Greshamsbury Park.
When the terrifying Lady Arabella Gresham discovers that her darling son, Frank, has fallen in love with Dr Thorne’s penniless niece, she is horrified. Her husband has frittered away the family fortune and is only being kept afloat by very favourable loans that Dr Thorne has secured from a railway millionaire, Sir Roger Scatcherd. However, Sir Roger is drinking himself into an early grave and the financial future is uncertain, so Lady Arabella believes it is her son’s duty to make a rich marriage to save the family estate and launches a campaign to secure her son an heiress for a bride.
No broadcaster has been confirmed.
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Sounds more Jane Austen than Downton Abbey. The thing that was good about Downton was the characters dealt with situations in a real way and didn’t follow period piece stereotypical tropes.
Needs Zombies added to the plot.
Barsetshire being Trollope’s fictional West Country rural county.
From the novel by Anthony Trollope [since it wasn’t mentioned in the article or the trailer].
Julian Fellowes seems good at constructing a premise and creating characters, but the storylines in Downton always ended weakly. Quite disappointing.