News round-up; Richard Bacon show; Emmys update

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ETA2.

* There's a long synopsis for episode 2 (set for 25 Oct @ 9-10.15pm) at the ITV press centre website, but I'm going to pretend it doesn't exist.

* HQ scans of Radio Times souvenir issue on tumblr

* High-res photo of the cast backstage @ BAFTA yesterday (via @DowntonAbbey on twitter)

* Abbey at war @independent.ie -- unusually for these

Comments

[clairiere]

love that Pamuk was based on a real life story

Oh you never knew? It's a great story, even more incredible than what took place on screen. So if someone ever says Pamuk was too soap-ish...[The Pamuk story] is completely true, which I heard years before, in a great house in England we were staying at. What had happened is that the owner had found a diary of a great-aunt. And in about 1895, there was this passage in a building single women slept in, either widows or young girls. And one of them had smuggled a man into her room and he died. And she woke up the woman next door, this sort of blameless middle-aged widow. And one of them realized the scandal was so enormous that actually they had to solve it themselves. So they woke the women up along this passage, and they swore all to silence and secrecy. And they carried, this group of dowagers and debutantes, they dragged him down the corridor back to his own bedroom to be found by his valet the next morning. And the thing is, not one of them talked. And the story never got out. And as I was listening to it, I thought 'one day...'.

As told by Julian Fellowes @ the Edinburgh festival, which he did again last night. And added this detail-- the owner of the house where they were staying checked the other diaries/letters at the time, and they said 'tragedy struck, so-and-so was found dead in his bed by his valet' which confirmed the secret never got out.

[eolivet]

Oh, that's SO cool!!! :) No, I had no idea! Wow, that's amazing...well, he certainly saved it for the right time, hee! :D

Thanks so much for sharing that...awesome. :)