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Greatish expectations: Tom Hollander and Stefanie Martini in ‘Doctor Thorne’
If there’s one thing we know by now it’s that Julian Fellowes is a dab hand at writing period dramas. It’s not so long since the dustcovers were put on Downton Abbey, and here he is again with Doctor Thorne (UTV Ireland, Sunday), a drama bathed in nostalgia, with fabulous costumes, vast piles near picture-postcard English villages, scheming matriarchs, and endless twittering about money and class.