There's now an official 'Downton Abbey' rewatch podcast

Featuring interviews with Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael, Elizabeth McGovern, and many more.
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Downton fans, rejoice! There's now an official Downton Abbey podcast.

The podcast features interviews with the cast and filmmakers behind the beloved show, including Hugh Bonneville (Earl of Grantham), Michelle Dockery (Lady Mary), Laura Carmichael (Lady Edith), Elizabeth McGovern (Lady Cora), as well as Downton Abbey: A New Era star Dominic West and director Simon Curtis.

The podcast launches ahead of the second movie installment, which is set to arrive in cinemas on April 29 in the UK and May 20 in the U.S..

The weekly re-watch podcast will be hosted by Rotten Tomatoes editor Jacqueline Coley and BBC Woman's Hour presenter Anita Rani.

You can expect to hear from Allen Leech (Tom Branson), Lesley Nicol (Mrs Patmore), Kevin Doyle (Mr Molesley), Penelope Wilton (Isobel Crawley), Michael Fox (Andrew Parker), plus writer Julian Fellowes, producers Gareth Neame and Liz Trubridge, historical consultant Alastair Bruce, costume designer Anna Mary Scott Robbins, production designer Donal Woods, and casting director Jill Trevellick.

The podcast, which launches today, is available on all major podcast platforms.

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Rachel Thompson
Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.


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