Julian Fellowes and the Downton Abbey cast showed preview footage and revealed details about the period drama's third series at the PBS Television Critics press tour yesterday (July 22).

Financial woes and the Irish troubles will be two themes that dominate the third run, according to show creator Fellowes.?"The '20s are a more nebulous time," Fellowes told reporters. "In the third series you see the impact on this family of the Irish Troubles.

"That really started up after the end of the First World War, and actually, at the time, was much more the headline than the suffragettes or the other things. The Irish problem seemed to be a kind of yawning difficulty for the British empire and everything. But, you know, again I don't think a lot of people know about that. It's rather nice to go into that."

In footage shown to reporters, Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville) and Cora Crawley (Elizabeth McGovern) were seen talking about their money woes, Brendan Coyle's Mr Bates is still in prison, while Mary (Michelle Dockery) and Matthew (Dan Stevens) are shown having a heated fight in which she accuses him of disloyalty.

Commenting on the Robert and Cora storyline, Fellowes said: "Cora's upbringing was not the same as Robert's... but as things start to change and the plates are shifting, and we are reminded what Cora's comes from. If anyone understands the world that is coming, it's Cora."

The writer also ruled out any of the characters heading to America, claiming the arrival of Shirley MacLaine as Martha Levinson was a way of bringing a US angle to the show.

Fellowes's show picked up 16 Emmy nominations last week.?Downton Abbey's third series will air in the autumn on ITV1 in the UK. It will air in the US on PBS on January 6, 2013.

滬江娛樂快訊：朱利安·費(fèi)羅斯（Julian Fellows）和整個(gè)《唐頓莊園》（Downton Abbey）劇組在昨天（7月22日）的PBS電視評(píng)論員巡回記者會(huì)上給大家播放了預(yù)告片段，并且透露了關(guān)于該劇第三季的細(xì)節(jié)。

據(jù)編劇費(fèi)羅斯透露，財(cái)政危機(jī)以及愛爾蘭問題將會(huì)是第三季的主題。費(fèi)列羅對(duì)記者說(shuō)：“20年代是一個(gè)混亂的時(shí)代。在第三季中，大家將會(huì)看到愛爾蘭問題給整個(gè)唐頓莊園帶來(lái)的影響?！?/p>

“愛爾蘭問題是在一戰(zhàn)結(jié)束之后才真正出現(xiàn)的。實(shí)際上，那時(shí)候愛爾蘭問題比婦女選舉權(quán)以及其他問題占據(jù)了更多新聞?lì)^條的版面。愛爾蘭問題給大英帝國(guó)以及所有的一切造成了越來(lái)越大的困難。但是，你知道的，我還是認(rèn)為很多人不了解這件事情。所以給大家普及一下這方面的知識(shí)是一件好事?！?/p>

在給記者播放的片段中，羅伯特·克勞利（Robert Crawley，由休·博內(nèi)威利/Hugh Bonneville飾演）和科拉·克勞利（Cora Crawley，由伊麗莎白·麥戈文/Elizabeth McGovern飾演）在討論他們的財(cái)政危機(jī)，布蘭登·科伊爾（Brendan Coyle）飾演的貝茨先生（Mr. Bates）仍舊在監(jiān)獄中度日，而瑪麗（Mary，由米歇爾·道克瑞/Michelle Dockery飾演）和馬修（Matthew，由丹·史蒂文斯/Dan Stevens飾演）在就馬修是否出軌的問題進(jìn)行激烈的爭(zhēng)吵。

編劇還說(shuō)第三季中不會(huì)有人去美國(guó)，雪莉·麥克雷恩（Shirley MacLaine）飾演的瑪莎·萊文森（Martha Levinson）一角的加入是一種從美國(guó)的角度來(lái)展現(xiàn)劇情的方式。

《唐頓莊園》上周在艾美獎(jiǎng)獲得了16項(xiàng)提名。《唐頓莊園》第三季將會(huì)于秋季在英國(guó)ITV1臺(tái)播出，并于2013年1月6日在美國(guó)PBS電視臺(tái)上映。?