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The writer of Downton Abbey: A New Era discusses historical homophobia in the film as well as his other period project, The Gilded Age.

Downton Abbey: A New Era continues the British TV family saga with a new sequel involving a silent movie and a French villa with mystery attached.

An on-location film shoot and a trip to the South of France lie in store for the Crawleys in a 'Downton Abbey' sequel that cheerily upholds the aristocratic status quo.

One wedding and a funeral -- and a birth. That gorgeous house, never mind the leaky roof. Some sunshine, too! More bone-dry quips from Maggie Smith. And oh, the clothes -- silks and satins, tulles and tiaras. What could go wrong?

In theaters May 20

The sequel to the 2019 film ‘Downton Abbey’ obligingly serves up more of the same

'Downton Abbey' never pretends to be anything more than what it is, a romanticized frothy soap opera fantasy with expensive china that will warm you like a well-worn angora sweater. The sequel adds a movie crew and a French villa gifted to Lady Grantham.

“Downton Abbey: A New Era” is not all that “new.”

Downton Abbey: A New Era continues the British TV family saga with a new sequel involving a silent movie and a French villa with mystery attached.

Maggie Smith as Violet Crawley still gets all the killer lines. In "Downton Abbey: A New Era," she turns her curmudgeonly cutlass on a new-fangled invention called "sound movies" as the visually stunning Abbey is being rented out to shoot a talkie. Oh, and she inherits a posh villa in the south of France.