This week, photos from the set of the Downton Abbey reveal that not only does Dame Maggie Smith appear the film, but her character, the Dowager Countess, is alive and well. When the project was first ...

Dame Maggie Smith and her celebrated Downton Abbey character Violet, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, will receive a “meaningful” tribute in the franchise’s third movie, set to arrive next year.

There's been talk of a Downton Abbey film for years, if only Julian Fellowes could get on with it, and Dame Maggie Smith reckons she knows how the film will start if it does actually happen. But it's ...