Julian Fellowes Adapting Anthony Trollope Novel for TV

Julian Fellowes set to write a new period drama series. And there’s even a Mary?!

Downton’s Fellowes adapting Anthony Trollope novel for TV

Julian Fellowes, the award-winning creator of ITV’s Downton Abbey is to adapt Anthony Trollope’s Doctor Thorne for television.

Fellowes, a “lifetime devotee of Trollope”, said he “could not be more delighted” to be writing the three-part drama, which will be on ITV.

The drama will tell the story of Dr Thomas Thorne, who lives in an English village with his niece, Mary.

In March it was announced that Downton Abbey is to end after six series.

Fellowes added that Trollope was his “favourite among the great 19th-Century English novelists and certainly the strongest influence over my work that I am conscious of”.

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