"Downton Abbey" creator Julian Fellowes is set to adapt Anthony Trollope's Victorian era novel "Doctor Thorne" as a three-part drama
Fellowes, 65, will begin shooting the drama later this year. He will also executive produce it with Chris Kelly and Ted Childs, reported Deadline.
The story centres on Dr Thomas Thorne, who lives in the village of Greshamsbury with his beautiful niece, Mary, a girl blessed with every gift except money.
"As a lifetime devotee of Trollope, my own favourite among the great nineteenth 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. I could not be more delighted," Fellowes said.
