James Delingpole James Delingpole

Old-school Sunday-night family viewing: ITV’s Belgravia reviewed

With a feisty dowager duchess, plenty of social climbing and snobbery, Julian Fellowes's latest period drama isn't original but it's exactly what we need

Emily Reid as Sophia Trenchard and Jeremy Neumark Jones as Lord Bellasis in Belgravia 
issue 21 March 2020

The world may be going to hell in a handcart but some things remain reassuringly unchanged: Julian Fellowes period dramas about feisty dowager duchesses, social climbing and snobbery, say. I like and admire Fellowes so I don’t want him to take this the wrong way. But when I say that his new series Belgravia (ITV) borrows from the same template he employed so successfully with Downton Abbey, and before that Gosford Park, and also in that series set on the Titanic that didn’t do quite so well, I’m not trying to suggest he’s a one-trick pony.

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