LONDON, April 27 (UPI) -- Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes is to adapt Anthony Trollope's novel Doctor Thorne as a three-part drama, which is to start filming later this year, ITV announced.
"As a lifetime devotee of Trollope, my own favorite among the great 19th century English novelists and certainly the strongest influence over my work that I am conscious of, it is tremendously exciting and satisfying to know that my adaptation of one of his best-loved novels is coming to ITV," Fellowes said in a statement. "I could not be more delighted."