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[thisbluespirit]

I was watching Jeeves & Wooster and spotted, as I said, Downton Abbey in diguise as Totleigh Towers. Also someone who was definitely familiar that I couldn't place, who turned out to be Chloe Annett (Red Dwarf's second Kochanski). Pics of both under the cut.

Anyway, I'm enjoying it, as you would expect, although they have the most dizzying habit of recasting all the recurring characters (through necessity, I assume), with at least three Madeline Bassetts and Aunt Dahlias by now. The best one being Francesca Folan who starts off as Madeline Bassett and finishes up as Honoria Glossop, which is quite a feat.


Downton Abbey or Totleigh Towers?

Highclere Castle is just a wee bit unmistakable, isn't it?


Both shows even use the interiors as well as the exteriors. This sort of parcel-stealing would never have happened under the aegis of Carson. Well, not without Thomas catching someone and blackmailing them or something.

Chloe Annett from Red Dwarf as Gertrude Winkworth, mostly because I thought the 1930s style suited her. (With bonus silly faces.) I did not make the connection until the credits:





I should have added actual Jeeves and Wooster, but I didn't. Sorry. You all know what Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie look like, anyway. :-p

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Actually I think I've forgotten what HL looks like, it's been so long!

They've started running radio ads for Downton today - and the first one I heard damn near gave me a heart failure. It started it with a piece of classical music - which then turned into the scream of a HE shell going over before exploding. I was standing right by the radio at that moment, and nearly fell over in shock. :(

[thisbluespirit]

Well, he's the one in that piccy in the middle. :-p

:lol: I mean, oh dear!!!

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Yeah but he doesn't look like that now, does he?!

It was *not* funny!!

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have to agree with what lost_spook said the other day, and suggest that it's about time the Americans gave him back. :)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Yes!

[john_amend_all]

I remember thinking when J&W came out that Highclere Castle was probably a bit oversized for Totleigh Towers; in Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves Bertie describes the latter as "not a show place like the joints you read about with three hundred and sixty-five rooms, fifty-two staircases and twelve courtyards, but definitely not a bungalow".

[dimity-blue.livejournal.com]

Jeeves and Wooster for the win! \o/ I haven't seen Downton Abbey at all yet. Is it good?

I don't know if I would've recognised Chloe Annett in that, though I'd probably recognise her voice. I really wasn't keen on her version of Kochanski at all.

Who's the bloke with her hiding behind the ginormous handlebar moustache?

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, it's great - I've been wanting to get a chance to see it for years. :-)

I love Downton a lot, so I'd say yes - my previous post was a bunch of related recs and goodies, and includes a very nice pimping post that acts as a good intro. But sort of Upstairs Downstairs as done by Julian Fellowes who wrote the film Gosford Park. With Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Penelope Wilton, Elizabeth McGovern, Brendan Coyle, Dan Stevens, Michelle Dockery and Joanne Froggett. It's very much an ensemble cast thing. (S1 covered 1912-1914 and S2 will do 1916-1918. So we are all biting our nails a lot because everyone is much to nice to die!!!)

Yeah, I'm not so fond of the back end of Red Dwarf, but I think she made the best of an bad lot. And I don't know who that is, although character-wise it's Catsmeat Potter Pirbright in disguise with a fake moustache.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, though I love the books best, I treasure my Jeeves & Wooster DVDs - House may have made Hugh Laurie a bigger star but his Bertie is just brilliant :)

[thisbluespirit]

Love your icon! (As ever. But Madeline Bassett #3 was definitely my fave out of them. The casting did get a bit dizzying.) And, oh yes. Well, as Stephen Fry himself says, no one could hope to do justice to that prose - but it's a treat to have an adaptation of that quality to watch as well!