Breathless: Interviews

Perfect lives built on lies.

Breathless is a six-part ITV drama starting at 9pm this Thursday (October 10).

Set in 1961, it is stylish, compelling and one of the best new drama series you will see this year.

The cast – led by Jack Davenport – doing full justice to top class writing, directing and photography.

Not forgetting the production team behind some memorable costumes, sets, locations and all round attention to period detail and feel.

Or the Anne Dudley soundtrack and a collection of inspired episode music choices.

Drawing you into a pre-swinging sixties’ world where everything may not be as it first seems.

I was asked to write the interviews for ITV’s press pack / production notes.

Downton Abbey: Series Three

WHO lives? Who dies? And who gets married?

Those questions are answered in the final episode of Downton Abbey series two on ITV1 at 9pm this Sunday.

With ITV having confirmed a few minutes ago that series three has, indeed, been commissioned.

As if there was any doubt.

It will again consist of eight episodes covering a period of 18 months in 1920 and 1921.

You can read the full press release at the bottom of this blog.

THE world of Downton Abbey has expanded for its second series, set against the backdrop of The Great War.

There are more characters, storylines and locations than last year.

Including those 1916 scenes at The Somme.

With plenty of shocks and surprises to come.

“YOU’LL find there’s never a dull moment in this house.”

Just one of many classic new lines from Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham (Dame Maggie Smith) in the second series of Downton Abbey.

The press were invited to Downton on Friday for the launch of the eight-part 2011 series, which will be followed by a Christmas special.

Or rather Highclere Castle in Berkshire, the real life location for the “upstairs” scenes in ITV1’s Yorkshire-set global hit.