'Downton Abbey' creator turns to the beautiful game

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Netflix has released a brand new featurette for The English Game, their now-playing limited series based on the origins of football and how those involved in its creation reached across the class divide to establish the game as the world’s most popular sport. The series is written and executive produced by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes and produced by 42 (Watership Down, Traitors).

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The fates of a 19th-century cotton mill, two rival soccer teams and a troubled marriage are bound together in “The English Game,” a mild entertainment from “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes. Anglophiles frothing at the mouth for Lord Fellowes’ usual costume-drama eye candy may be disappointed, as the bulk of the story takes place in the grimy world of serving wenches, poorly lit taverns, muddy roads and grim cotton mills of Lancashire. Maggie Smith does not drop in for an acerbic cameo.

With global soccer shut down these days, fans desperate for a fix of the beautiful game may find it from a rather unlikely source — the creator of the stately “Downton Abbey.”

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