Downton Abbey

Created by Julian Fellowes

On ITV1

A stately, visually sumptuous chronicle of an English country estate across the early 20th century, balancing intimate domestic relationships with the slow erosion of aristocratic privilege.

A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.