Screenwriter Heidi Thomas talks of Upstairs, Downstairs

"And so it came to pass that,

over a miniature cream tea served at 30,000 feet,
I first broached the subject of reviving 'Updown'."

Screenwriter Heidi Thomas expounds on remaking Upstairs, Downstairs:

"In two weeks' time, I will get the Christmas present of a lifetime. Upstairs Downstairs - one of the best-loved television programmes in history - is coming back. I'm so excited, I keep forgetting that I've written it myself. The revived Upstairs Downstairs begins with an empty house - 165 Eaton Place, former home of the Bellamys, has not been lived in for five years.

As Lady Agnes Holland, the new chatelaine, remarks: 'What a ghastly old mausoleum!' She gets the decorators in immediately. Over the course of the three-hour drama, a dozen new characters converge upon the house, and it becomes home to two distinct families..."

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"Without Jean, we could not have made the sequel.
Jean is Rose, and Rose is Upstairs Downstairs."

"We whisked a glorious Humber limousine from under Madonna's nose
- she'd been after it for a film she was making. "

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