The Making Of || Downton Abbey Special Features Season 4

The Making Of
With Elizabeth McGovern (Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham), Michelle Dockery (Lady Mary Crawley), Hugh Bonneville (Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham), David Evans, Julian Fellowes, Liz Trubridge, Laura Carmichael (Lady Edith Crawley), Penelope Wilton (Isobel Crawley), Caroline McCall, Tom Cullen (Anthony Foyle, Viscount Gillingham), Magi Vaughan, Lily James (Rose MacClare), Mark Ellis, Donal Woods, Jim Carter (Charles Carson), Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (Dame Nellie Melba), Gareth Neame and more.
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[@johnnyM809]

One of the greatest TV shows of all time. Downton Abbey was a masterpiece.

[@lauracrawford8723]

YES AGREED 😩 but i could argue season 6 was not

[@lexj6783]

Yes it was a masterpiece collection

[@allanpeterson3358]

Totally agree with you

[@ClaytonWiltshire]

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[@makenja1037]

I'm hooked! But I can only watch from KZbin.😢

[@melissafountain2757]

Did not realize until Michelle's comment that the mourning dress was the same design as the wedding dress. Brilliant for a presentation that seems to want to pride itself with new and surprising scenes and wardrobes.

[@delublink127]

i didn’t either; when she said that i started to cry. (that dress was one of my favorites actually.. i personally wear black and grey and loved that one the best.)

[@soundaryar459]

Matthew's death was handled extremely well by the series, especially given how late and suddenly Dan Stevens decided to leave. They don't have excessive tears, and yet there's that shock and disbelief conveyed in the first part of series 4. Couldn't have been done better

[@melissafountain2757]

At first I was angry that he took the part, then ran. Then I saw the other roles he took and I thought that for a young man I did not blame him at all, especially the Dickens role. After that, it was especially good to me because Fellows made Mary a perfect character without having intended to and likely she would have been anyway.

[@vickiross1025]

Matthew and Sybil see their newborn children & die. Strange.

[@lalique512]

Downton Abbey is without a doubt, television at its best, worldwide. It’s a class on its own. Simply outstanding!!!

[@elisa8044]

Undouptly..... 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🎇🎇🎇🎇

[@lilacscentedfushias1852]

The BBC are undoubtedly the best producers of period dramas 😁

[@Juliana65]

I LOVE this show!! No smut, no vulgarity, just great stories, great characters, and a LOT of class!!

[@shirleymccrory4444]

When you hate an actor in a part don’t you know it shows how Great they are in their ability to play that particular role, no one could do Thomas better than the actor who plays him,nor Mary or any of them. They are all great in their parts…..Long Live Downton Abbey!!!!

[@joycefroney6162]

Absolutely first rate film making and I wish it could continue. Hats off to the British who set the standard for TV.

[@lilacscentedfushias1852]

The BBC are the best for period dramas and being a Brit we get them first 😁 Have you seen Foyle’s War?

[@aaf1548]

I’ve Binged watched all six years in about 2 1/2 weeks but I have seen all six years at least four times, love this show and I noticed something new every time I watch it

[@Shazzadut1]

Agree. I’ve watched it several times and still enjoy it. There are so many stories every season that it makes it fun to watch again and say ‘oh yes, I forgot about that!’

[@patriciasmith1128]

can you imagine a meeting amongst Julian Fellowes and Anthony Horowitz and Matthew Weiner?

[@louisel.sinniger2057]

This was my grandmother’s era. I have fond memories of the things she told me. Whenever my sis and I take tours thru the homes out in Newport Rhode Island it all comes back to me. If I could time travel this is a time frame I would love to visit.

[@lilacscentedfushias1852]

We have loads of stately homes you can visit 😁 tbh we have tons of history 😁

[@hjhaminahhjsapawi9679]

I still binge-watch Downton Abbey in 2021..! The best TV series ever..!

[@sharonwyatt298]

I still do in 2024 😮😊

[@KimYoung-l4g]

YESS! THE GREASTEST TIME PIECE EVER❤

[@ritaree123]

I’m still doing it in 2025

[@claudiaparris5597]

Simply the best. I am still binging in 2024.amazing creation.

[@shirleymccrory4444]

Downton Abbey is a Master piece!

[@lucianflorescu711]

I'm from Romania and I dare say the British, like no other , know so well how to make this kind of movies ! There was no need to repeat that but I felt I should because " Downton Abby" , following the tradition of "Forsythe Saga" ( the version with Eric Porter as Somes ) but in a more successful manner, is exceeding all the expectations and demolish any criticism...Personally I've seen all the versions of Downton Abbey ( the series, the 2019 version, etc ) more than once because every time I discover something new that I previously overlooked and enjoy every second of it...All my thanks and respect to all the people who worked and made a huge effort (i.e. actors in leading roles, supporting actors, director, script writer, make-up artists, technical crew, etc ) just for us....the viewers, to offer us so many moments of delight. THANK YOU AGAIN ..

[@lilacscentedfushias1852]

As a Brit thank you 😁 Have you seen Foyle’s War? You may enjoy that too. Father Brown is completely different but still bbc set from the 40s I think, you may enjoy that too 😁

[@nicholasstokes8330]

Class comes to class. Excellent casting of Dame Kiri

[@blueyes27m.a.negmetzhanova52]

Yes, I agree that it is one of the greatest TV shows of all time!Thanks, I watched it with pleasure . Masterpiece!!! I like all of you!

[@ronnie7075]

Dame Kiri te Kanawa is from New Zealand and is very famous. Prince Charles invited her to sing at his wedding to Lady Diana in 1981. She is a true artist.

[@Shamsithaca]

love that Dame Kiri singing was all live captured.

[@duben55]

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa sings this beautiful Antonin Dvorak's song with great sensitivity. Lovely!

[@lorenaarias1952]

I love this! Downton Abbey is the best series I’ve seen.

[@Stormz.1337]

So many great and passionate people been working on this. No wonder it is as wonderful as it is. I love it! Downton forever ❤️

[@andrewjones-productions]

I didn't know that Dame Kiri Te Kanawa had been in the show. I can quite understand the sentiments expressed by the cast and crew about her wonderful singing. This really was a production with some of the best talent. Both on and off camera. It is of no wonder that 'Downton Abbey' was and is so popular.

[@farfalal13]

Marvelous to hear her uninterrupted by a rape scene and hideous screaming!

[@inderbirkaur6136]

All of them are just adorable 😍

[@AcerW-s9e]

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's voice.....oh! Marvelous!

[@greatbritishentertainmentl5636]

Great to see the painstaking work that goes into a first-class production that is Downton Abbey!

[@itsprivate4360]

W❤w Dame Kirk Te kanawa on this was amazing to see, thanks to the producers for such fabulous taste adding even more class to the series.

[@emdee7744]

This was great fun. Thank you.

[@inderbirkaur6136]

Indeed...a masterpiece......💜

[@TheTrwebster]

Wonderful voice, yet hard to watch, when you know what's going on below stairs. One of those moments when one understands just how good Julian Fellowes' writing is.

[@Biotechman10]

I miss Downton Abbey....

[@johnking5174]

There is a chance we might get a third movie.

[@LindaQuigley-r8k]

Should be called A New Generation with the children grow ing

[@Biotechman10]

@@johnking5174 Should be called the end of an era!!

[@ElizabethCabral-k8v]

Maybe season 7 is a rumor!

[@labbecedario1579]

The third movie is in production, and It will be a tribute to Lady Grantham

[@El-vi6lg]

Best show ever❤❤👏🌟🍸🌟👏❤❤❤❤❤

[@carollackhansingh2732]

Everyone is so well dressed,breathing taking dresses and men in aristocratic suits! I do love this series ❤

[@tomcooper-hayes6579]

Revisiting all things Downton at this time, because of the passing of the indomitable Violet. Had forgotten the Beauteous Dame Nellie Melba!

[@ciroalb3]

what I liked best was that Lord G initially intended her to eat with the staff in the kitchen, not with the family. She was just "entertainment". In 1922, Melba was at the end of her career, and a legend. Hard to imagine that she would have been treated as just entertainment

[@adamjeffries7235]

no, she was meant to eat alone in her room. no one thought she was a chambermaid status. the problem with classism is the lord could not place her if she did not have a title. in the scene the lord was shocked that the opera singer understand claret

[@kevingrady5316]

Wonderful. Thank you.

[@bobbidazzler1343]

Michelle Dockery is so beautiful. X

[@lideabarker8161]

So too is Laura Carmichel.

[@jamiejosh96]

@@lideabarker8161 tbf the longer the show went on, the less I was attracted to Lady Mary and the more I was attracted to Lady Edith

[@lideabarker8161]

@@jamiejosh96 She was a much nicer character. Mary had a bit of ugly on the inside.

[@achilajamir2246]

really really loved this series..love from NE..

[@anitachequer6258]

I follow you on Instagram and i must say i loved it! Great great job

[@GleePotter8468]

Anita Chequer thank you 😁😁😁

[@annemacleod1421]

A proud moment for wee Kiwis when Dame Kiri entered stage right. 🇳🇿🇳🇿🐑🐑NZ

[@duben55]

"My Mother Taught Me" is the Czech composer Antonin Dvořák's song from a poem by Adolf Heyduk.

[@bramsrockhopper3377]

But poor Anna 😕 Why did it have to be Anna? She and Bates go through way more than their fair share, and they’re both decent people. I know bad things happen to good people, but for hell’s sake, they do push that too far. Don’t think I can forgive Julian Fellowes for putting Anna (and Bates) through that rape storyline. Should have been one of the lesser known characters. Those things happened to staff, sadly, so of course it’s a valid storyline. But to heap that misery on Anna again… Terribly cruel.

[@love_agapi_m3976]

It’s bc her character is so beloved that her being raped would have more of an impact to viewers then if it was a lesser loved character. I didn’t love it either but that is why it happened

[@thebusybeanhomecafe4035]

I love cruel. Especially on my favorite characters heheh

[@luisaguaiza727]

I agree with you.

[@wesssavorn9018]

So Love this show

[@jaynekranc8607]

Ran across this again and it reenforces my opinion that Highclere was the real star of the show.

[@andrewaway]

So fantastic.

[@duben55]

Brava!

[@pmajudge]

2021 ------- MORE , MORE, PLEASE ! COME ON JULIAN FELLOWS ?????? ---PERHAPS SET IN 1940'S TO 1950'S --- FROM U.K

[@FelicianoCookie]

I was always thinking it would be such fun to see Downton as it is run by George or even Victorian era during Violet's day when Robert was a child :D

[@shirleymccrory4444]

I still look at the episodes nightly….

[@pmajudge]

BRILLIANT !!!NEAT !!LOVED THE RE-RUN OF THE SERIES !!!!TELEVSION PROGRAMME TO LOOK FORWARD TO VERY MUCH !!!DON'T MISS ---- "UPSTAIRS & DOWNSTAIRS" ( 1960'S / 70'S ) .THE BRITS ACT THIER SOCKS OFF !!!THANKS !!TO ALL THE GREAT CASTING !!!FROM (U.K.)

[@azabujuban-hito-dake]

Michelle's so beautiful !!

[@gulmerton2758]

I wonder if back in the day, in real life, servants could really be invited to a concert with their masters……

[@johnking5174]

Yes, on special occasions, depending on how liberal your master was. It did happen, especially at Christmas and New Year

[@splatrick6931]

Hugh really does look exactly like Paul Burrell 😂

[@milanamughal]

English is not my native language, and the differences between British and American English really stand out. I know many obvious differences, but I never realized before Downton Abbey that in Britain a “season” of a show is called “series”. I believe in the US the word “series” applies to the entire show with division to “seasons” of it. Am I correct? I love this show. Amazing script, wonderful actors. And so many moments when I see time and again the reasons behind each nomination and each received award for this show. Brilliant actors - from principal characters to the characters that appear even for just an episode or two... Brilliant! Although I found quite a funny name - Dame Kiri Te Kanawa - [kanawa] in my language means “a ditch” on the side of a road, where one could find rain water, some roadside garbage. Looking at a beautiful glamorous singer, knowing who she is per script, made me giggle a bit because of her name... And at the same time I had to look up who she was - and I came across some snippets of her singing - her voice is so beautiful! And I was so glad about her name - sparked my curiosity and now I know of her and her beautiful soprano. I didn’t realize it was her real voice in the show and not someone else signing for the character of Nellie Melba... So ironic! Ashamed to say that I’m a daughter of a professional classic musician and I have never heard of Nellie Melba before - and a silly curiosity helped me learn something new and share it with my mother - who is a pianist and a conductor and she admitted she never heard of Nellie Melba before either... Thought I’d share this with the world :).

[@awakenedhypnosis]

You are correct about the American use of series and seasons. :)

[@katarinadicamella]

The cost of each episode is around £1m😶

[@johnnymac1580]

Not bad ⚡️

[@PatBarrow]

I loved loved loved about Downtown Abby. Name one thing and yes I loved it! I actually watched this at least four times and still going.! One character did get on my nerves...MARY! : ) we all know why.

[@shirleymccrory4444]

I love Thomas!

[@travelstyle6436]

👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@carolynwhite9313]

After all this time, I’m still furious with Dan Stevens for leaving the show. He was such a well fit and natural character.

[@weemouse101]

9:04 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa

[@fly89]

and she is the only real dame to play a dame in Downtown 😅

[@bufordteejustice1119]

We recently watched the entire series. I really enjoyed it except for the Mr. Green saga. Having Mr. Bates jailed, and then freed , just to turn around and jail Mrs. Bates was a little ridiculous.

[@johnking5174]

It's a drama - just because it looks brilliant on screen, doesn't mean they would shy away from soap opera stories

[@christynorman7288]

The law is ridiculous. Peace ☮️ out SW England 🇬🇧

[@johnking5174]

@@christynorman7288 The law back then was stupid - jailing men for having consensual sex with another man was one of the most stupid laws Britain had.

[@russrzln]

It was so sad

[@whenemilyfallsinlove]

Michelle’s natural accent >>>>>>>>

[@brunarubbiani8478]

E possibile in italiano

[@mariamaresca8320]

Italia no

[@adventurenana]

This episode is hard to watch with the attack on Anna. 😢

[@alyzu4755]

Beadith. 😂😂😂

[@joelgarcia15]

Mabel Lane Fox had the best dresses

[@jonnawyatt]

What, so Matthew died?

[@c.a.macrae3519]

Manchester-born writer, CA MacRae, met with Carolyn Reynolds, Executive Producer of Coronation Street over a script she wrote in 2004. Inspired by Carolyn's positive comments C.A. MacRae began research years later when life enabled her. So if you love Downton Abbey and conspiracy theories, then you will love C.A MacRae's Gemini Complex, The Cabal: After the final demise of the Cathars at Chateau Mount Montségur in the south of France in 1244, a heroic rescue by a Knights Templar took place. Six hundred and fifty-three years later a murder and spate of suspicious deaths of the clergy become linked in the south of France. Flo’s first day (10th November 1918) at Chandringham doesn’t work out quite how she imagined. A bright but humble farm girl finds herself thrust into the upper echelons of society. Rather than being trained in the everyday tasks of a maid, she’s told she needs to leave her old life behind and immerse herself in the life of the aristocracy, as Lady Mary Tavistock. Her world is turned upside down, Flo realises she’s not the person she’s always thought she was, and to make matters worse she finds out her life is endangered. In order to make sense of who she really is and what her purpose in life is, she’s sent to Switzerland to meet others of her kind. The Gemini Complex, The Cabal is the first book of a trilogy. It's going to be released later this year

[@ritaseymour8116]

Thankyou

[@philippasteel]

Sounds like a ton of fun to come -- great stuff!

[@ЛюдмилаШиряева-г5л]

Кири уже не поет здесь

[@jws1948ja]

And Whoopi Goldberg wanted Aunt Violet again.

[@Fee212]

The only cast member I couldn't take to was Michell Dockery. I don't know why, she seems like an unkind person.

[@бронза.вафля.конус]

How so?

[@sandylipscomb7003]

TOO PRISSY!!!

[@Elisabeth-z2e]

English the best at this

[@rondunn4336]

scenes with Shirley Maclaine are unwatchable

[@philippasteel]

Oh nuts ---NOTHING with Shirley Maclaine is unwatchable!!! Anyway, the solution is yours -- close your eyes / turn it off/ go and do something else...etc., etc., etc.........

[@angiel2710]

I hate this season, I hate Thomas

[@thebusybeanhomecafe4035]

Ew

[@whenemilyfallsinlove]

Why? He’s nice in this season hon ur homophobia is showing

[@charlesf4314]

I lv Thomas. Lol

[@бронза.вафля.конус]

​@@whenemilyfallsinloveuhh you do realise that Tommy is a complete and utter cuntt right? Should we not dislike terrible people just because they're gay? Dumb comment

[@elisa8044]

Gratly apreciated...Imensily liqued...(sorry to my english) from Brasil (Town Resende/RJ) I already ad the pleasure to see...💫💫💫💫👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐