{"id":2597,"date":"2013-05-01T08:01:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T12:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2013-05-01T08:01:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T12:01:10","slug":"downton-abbey-adds-gary-carr-as-jazz-singer-for-season-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/05\/01\/downton-abbey-adds-gary-carr-as-jazz-singer-for-season-four\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDownton Abbey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Adds Gary Carr As Jazz Singer For Season Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www-deadline-com.vimg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/thumbnails\/487470-2013-05-01-10-59-34.jpg?w=525\" alt=\"post thumbnail\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www-deadline-com.vimg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/gary-carr__130501094608.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www-deadline-com.vimg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/gary-carr__130501094608-200x144.jpg?resize=200%2C144\" alt=\"\" title=\"gary-carr\" width=\"200\" height=\"144\"><\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/tag\/downton-abbey\/\">Downton Abbey<\/a><\/em> executive producer Gareth Neame said today that Gary Carr\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s addition to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/tag\/itv\/\">ITV<\/a> show \u00e2\u20ac\u0153will bring interesting twists to the drama.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The actor has most recently been seen in BBC series <em>Bluestone 42<\/em> and <em>Death In Paradise<\/em>. His <em>Downton<\/em> character, Jack Ross, is a jazz singer described as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a charming and charismatic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d young man. The addition marks the first time <em>Downton<\/em> has had a black character. The show has in the past faced criticism that it lacks cultural diversity. In the fourth season, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll join previously announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/03\/shirley-maclaine-returning-to-downton-abbey-6-new-cast-members-join\/\">new cast members<\/a> Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Tom Cullen, Julian Ovenden, Nigel Harman, Joanna David and Dame Harriet Walter. The fourth season is currently shooting for air later this year.<\/p>\n<p>via Deadline.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/05\/downton-abbey-adds-first-black-character-gary-carr-to-play-jazz-singer\/\">http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/05\/downton-abbey-adds-first-black-character-gary-carr-to-play-jazz-singer\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downton Abbey executive producer Gareth Neame said today that Gary Carr\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s addition to the ITV show \u00e2\u20ac\u0153will bring interesting twists to the drama.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The actor has most recently been seen in BBC series Bluestone 42 and Death In Paradise. His Downton character, Jack Ross, is a jazz singer described as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a charming and charismatic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d young &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/05\/01\/downton-abbey-adds-gary-carr-as-jazz-singer-for-season-four\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDownton Abbey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Adds Gary Carr As Jazz Singer For Season Four&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[130,6,947,946],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-deadline-com","tag-ifttt","tag-international-editor","tag-nancy-tartaglione"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-FT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}