VIDEO: CBS SUNDAY MORNING Goes Inside DOWNTON ABBEY's Highclere Castle (TV Content)

Correspondent Martha Teichner took viewers on a private tour of Highclere Castle, the real English manor that serves as the backdrop for the popular TV drama "Downtown Abbey" on this weekend's CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH Charles Osgood on the CBS Television Network. Check out the segment, which aired just this morning, below!

"We needed a house that even to people whom this way of life was totally strange, they needed to understand why someone would take their life to The Edge of the cliff in order to save this house," "Downton Abbey" executive producer Julian Fellowes tells Teichner.

The 50-plus bedroom home is owned by the 8th Earl and Lady Carnarvon, who are known as Fiona and Geordie to their friends. One of those friends, is Fellowes, who felt the house and the grounds were such that storywise "...it would have the right to control.." the "Downton Abbey" characters' lives.


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Apparently, some more major television networks are starting to open up the vault when it comes to footage from “Downton Abbey” season 3. Just a matter of days after “CBS Sunday Morning” aired a behind-the-scenes preview at the upcoming collection of episodes, we are now seeing the same sort of thing occur courtesy of ABC News and “Nightline.” (Note: the following article contains minor spoilers, but only from a clip that is deemed safe for American audiences.)

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BEHIND THE SCENES AT "DOWNTON ABBEY" CBS MORNING NEWS

click here:  Behind the scenes at "Downton Abbey"(CBS News) The hugely popular PBS series "Downtown Abbey" is now entering its third year. Many have dreamed of visiting that stately home, but our Martha Teichner has actually done it

Downton Abbey:CBS SUNDAY MORNING to Go Behind the Scenes of DOWNTON ABBEY, 12/9 (BROADWAY WORLD)

The drama, the intrigue, a castle, stunning period wardrobes and more greeted CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH Charles Osgood correspondent Martha Teichner as part of the first U.S. TV network news broadcast ever to be allowed behind the scenes for filming of the third season of the international television hit “Downton Abbey.” Teichner’s inside report from the set will be presented on CBS SUNDAY MORNING to be broadcast Dec. 9, 2012 on the CBS Television Network.

“Downton Abbey” is an international TV phenomenon seen in 170 countries, centered around a British Earl, his American wife and life at their country manor. The program has been nominated for 27 Emmy Awards and has won nine, a level of success even the producers never imagined, Teichner reports.

“No one is prepared for this extraordinary kind of whirlwind that took place, and if you expected it, you’d be a fool,” show creator Julian Fellowes tells Teichner.

Teichner and a CBS SUNDAY MORNING crew visited the Highclere Castle, the home of a real Earl in the English countryside southwest of London, where the show is shot. There, Teichner interviews cast members Hugh Bonneville, Brendan Coyle, Joanne Froggatt, Dan Stevens, Michelle Dockery, historical advisor Alastair Bruce and Rebecca Eaton, executive producer of PBS’ “Masterpiece,” which nearly passed on “Downton Abbey.” The new season gets underway in the United States on Jan. 6.

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