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- The original “Upstairs, Downstairs” was considered groundbreaking at the time of its release because there had never before been a drama series on British television that examined society from the servants’ point of view.
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Apr 2, 2019 · Courtesy LWT. The original “Upstairs, Downstairs” was considered groundbreaking at the time of its release because there had never before been a drama series on British television that examined society from the servants’ point of view.
Aug 29, 2021 · When we began Upstairs, Downstairs, privilege was a dirty word and the writers, notably Fay Weldon, spiced up the scripts with political grit: toffs = snooty; servants = heroic. (It was, incidentally, the BBC’s leaden politicisation of the 2010-12 remake of Upstairs, Downstairs that wrecked it.)
Oct 16, 2020 · But because “Upstairs, Downstairs” aired on commercial-free PBS, Americans lost that vital dimension to the story. 3. “Upstairs, Downstairs”’ juggernaut success inspired CBS, eager to rival PBS in the “quality” department, to produce an American version of the show: “Beacon Hill.”
Apr 23, 2012 · Mon 23 Apr 2012 08.30 EDT. Four weeks after the last episode of the second series, the BBC has quietly announced that it won't be recommissioning Upstairs Downstairs. The revival of the 1970s...
Nov 2, 2018 · Like its 21st century sibling, which also wrapped its storyline around the sinking of the Titanic and the World War I, Upstairs Downstairs chronicled the slow decline of the British aristocracy using significant events to document the social and technological changes that occurred between those 27 years, including the Edwardian period, the ...
Mar 7, 2016 · Freedman specifically explores the exportation of Edwardian “Englishness” as an ideology, using the BBC’s 1970s hit Upstairs, Downstairs and the 1985 film, A Room with a View as examples.
Apr 8, 2011 · In the 1970s, the BBC's Upstairs Downstairs became one of the most popular British television series to date. The show took a leisurely look back at a Britain in which class distinctions were ...
