• Why ‘Downton Abbey’ fans will love new melodrama ‘Belgravia’

    Why ‘Downton Abbey’ fans will love new melodrama ‘Belgravia’

    The glittering chandeliers in the ballrooms of London’s one-percenters are given a good throttle by sordid and tragic revelations in the new Julian Fellowes’ melodrama “Belgravia.” The British series premiered in four installments in March across the pond; in the US, it will play in six episodes on Epix. “Downton Abbey” it can never be, …
  • ‘Downton Abbey’ creator back with soccer tale ‘The English Game’

    ‘Downton Abbey’ creator back with soccer tale ‘The English Game’

    The fates of a 19th-century cotton mill, two rival soccer teams and a troubled marriage are bound together in “The English Game,” a mild entertainment from “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes. Anglophiles frothing at the mouth for Lord Fellowes’ usual costume-drama eye candy may be disappointed, as the bulk of the story takes place in …