‘Downton Abbey’ season 6: Julian Fellowes on writing every episode
There are a variety of different achievements that you can associate with “Downton Abbey” in one way or another. It is a technical marvel, a master class in acting, and also a true test of someone’s skill to establish a period of time while keeping it consistent over six years.
Something that we think is often overlooked, especially in America, is how every single episode is penned by the same exact person in Julian Fellowes. This is something that few shows in America attempt (you can look at “True Detective” as an example of one that is), and one of the reasons why we do not hear a whole lot about this is simply because it is a completely different structure in America with writers rooms and the like.
Speaking to Indiewire, Fellowes explains that penning every episode of the series is something that he values, but it is more due to his own natural tendencies more so than a distaste for the writers room structure:
“I do write every word of it. Every word. And that’s the way it’s been. But it’s not because I don’t approve of writing rooms and things; I admire them. And most of all, I admire it when, in a show like “Mad Men,” you get Matthew Weiner, the lead writer and the showrunner, and he manages to have a writing room of many writers. And yet, to maintain such a distinctive style, that “Mad Men” has a look and a sound that we all could spot at a hundred paces. And I don’t know how you do that. I really admire that. That he somehow manages to maintain such a tight ship, that his style is maintained by all these other men and women.”
It is because of Fellowes’ tendencies that he will write every episode of “The Gilded Age” himself, provided of course that NBC decides to pick up the long-awaited series that was meant to be his follow-up.
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