Attention, "Downton Abbey" fans and Titanic fans:
From an interview with author Julian Fellowes:
Since "Mary Poppins" premiered in 2004, Fellowes has been very busy. A sequel he wrote for "Downton Abbey" is on the way. (Part I aired recently on PBS.)
And the writer is now immersed in another "remake": a four-part TV miniseries for ABC about the Titanic. "We've found quite an interesting structure for it," he said. "We try to present a very rounded picture of the whole ship, with characters in first, second, third class, and with officers, servants, boilermen.
"Normally you have to sit through the whole thing before the boat sinks. We sink it every week. But only in the last episode do we find out who lives and who dies."