TV Info
Episode Premiere
September 26, 2010Distributor
PBS, ITVGenre
DramaShow Period
2010 - nowProduction Company
Carnival Films
Cast and Crew
Director
Brian PercivalScreenwriter
Julian FellowesMain Cast
- Hugh Bonneville as Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham
- Elizabeth McGovern
- Maggie Smith as Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham
- Dan Stevens
- Penelope Wilton
- Jim Carter
- Phyllis Logan
- Brendan Coyle
- Joanne Froggatt
- Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary Crawley
- Jessica Brown Findlay as Lady Sybil Crawley / Lady Sybil Branson
- Shirley MacLaine as Martha Levinson
Synopsis
Set in April 1912. Lord Grantham's cousin, James Crawley, who is Lord Grantham's heir presumptive, and his son, Patrick, both die in the sinking of the RMS Titanic. With no male offspring, speculation mounts as to who will become his heir. Lord Grantham hires Bates to be his valet.
