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Harmony in the U.K. (Prospect)

Much about the phenomenal success of _Downton Abbey_, the hit British
television show about a stately home, an aristocratic family, and their shadow
kingdom of servants during the second decade of the 20th century, has come as
a surprise. For one thing, the series is shown here on ITV, known to my
grandmother’s generation, born around the time season one is set, as “the
commercial channel.” (To understand the full impact of this descriptor,
imagine it emerging in a splutter from the pursed lips of Downton’s grande
dame, the Dowager Lady Grantham, played in a state of permanent quivering
outrage by Dame Maggie Smith.) It is not that ITV has never been able to
produce this kind of quality television— The Jewel in the Crown, Brideshead
Revisited, and the original Upstairs, Downstairs all sailed triumphantly under
its colors. But the once-sluggish station had been taken over in recent years
by reality shows such as The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent. So the
appearance of Downton Abbey on ITV in September 2010 represented the moment at
which millions of British fans of glossy costume drama tuned in to a channel
that had been off their ...

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