On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote:

> Siobahn Finneran, who played Sarah O'Brien on the popular British drama
> series, won't be back for the fourth "series," as they like to say,
> choosing to do the BBC series "The Syndicate" (which, as far as I know, has
> no American outlet yet) instead--of course, being an ensemble show, they'll
> probably absorb the loss:
>
>
> http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/downton-abbey-shocker-another-key-character-departs-79851
>

Two things that I saw and don't remember where to link: this was set up in
the Christmas episode. In the Scottish castle, at the end of the party,
O'Brien is seen talking to the lady of the castle after O'Brien discovered
and dissed the Scottish lady's maid. The Scottish lady is headed for a
posting overseas and the explanation is that she hired O'Brien for her maid.

And Julian Fellowes notes that the situation is different when a downstairs
character's actor wants to leave the show. A servant can get a new job and
never be seen again while a family member has to be killed off. There are
just no circumstances where Sybil and Matthew, would go somewhere else and
never visit or be in contact.

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