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This might be a sexist thing to say, but I don't really think Downton Abbey is a bloke kind of programme.

Period dramas are more of a ‘girl thing’ in my experience, although I admit I always thought a period drama was set 200 years ago rather than less than 100. Anyway, I had managed to avoid Downton since it started, instead busying myself emptying the dishwasher on Sunday evenings until Match of the Day 2 starts at 10pm. Until this week. And what nudged my new found interest in Downton? Something as glorious as the Income Protection Task Force – a grouping of industry luminaries (and I don’t mean that sarcastically) – which has been brave enough to own up to watching Downton. Some achi...

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