Television - Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey begins on ITV1 tonight at 9pm. A couple of tweets from Dan Stevens about the show:

"Downton Abbey starts this Sunday, 9pm ITV1&HD. Cancel any plans for the next seven Sunday nights. Unless your plans were to watch Downton..."

[answer to a question from the official Twitter @DowntonAbbey] "I did enjoy doing all my own stunts on that vintage bicycle..."

• Articles
• Telegraph [link]
• The Life of Wylie [link]
• Express [link] 
• Daily Mail (by Julian Fellowes) [link]
• AOL TV (via C19 - registration required) [link]
  
  
• Interviews
• Northern Echo: Joanne Froggatt [link]
• Front Row: Julian Fellowes and Hugh Bonneville (via @DowntonAbbey) [link]
• BBC Breakfast: Julian Fellowes and Hugh Bonneville (via @DowntonAbbey) [link]
• Digital Spy: Julian Fellowes, Hugh Bonneville, Joanne Froggatt, Laura Carmichael, and Jessica Brown Findlay [link]
• This is Bath: Hugh Bonneville (via C19 - registration required) [link]
  
  
• Reviews
• The Guardian [link]
• On the Box [link]
  
  
• Synopses for episodes 1 and 2 from the ITV press centre episode 1|episode 2
  
  
• Related links
• C19 period drama sub-forum (registration required) [link]
• Enchanted Serenity of Period Films: posts labelled Downton Abbey [link]