It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Jeeves & Wooster. Well, of P.G. Wodehouse. Well, of anything relating to P.G. Wodehouse that’s fabulously done.

“She looked like a tomato struggling for self-expression.” -P.G. Wodehouse

As far as moving pictures, this amounts to  the 1990s Jeeves & Wooster BBC show staring the incredibly talented Hugh Laurie & Stephen Fry, and the recent (cancelled, dammit) Blandings, which had a mixed first season but a terrific second year….

“Unlike the male codfish, which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.” -P.G. Wodehouse

…and let me digress a moment to say what a brilliant (and undercredited) performace Jack Farthing turned in as Freddie Threepwood. Dundering, but with a truely lovable sly edge.

They also filmed Blandings at what may possibly be the coolest location, ever. I don’t know if the interiors were the same place, but the art-deco entryway (much utilized) is worth the price of the series.

Crom Castle, Northern Ireland (via Wikimedia Commons)

Speaking of castles, Downton Abbey fans may be crushed into the dust to know that Highclaire Castle served as Madeline Bassett’s Totleigh Towers decades before the Granthams moved in.

Highclere Castle (via Wikimedia Commons)

Let’s see…on screen, Lord Grantham’s got posession of the old homestead as of 1926, and Jeeves and Wooster is a bit wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey between the 1920s-30s. I hope doesn’t mean Lady Mary will be forced to sell!

More seriously (still not a lot), I do, of course, love Downton Abbey. Who can resist watching, if only for the beautifully recreated 1920s styles?

Downton Abbey’s Rose – invented to give the show a “flapper.”

Which brings us back to Jeeves & Wooster. I’ve chafed for years because, while I have them on DVD, the only streaming option has been to rent individual episodes. Since I mostly watch TV on my iPhone under the covers, that meant getting my J&W fix from fuzzy bootleg Youtube videos. *sigh*

But sigh no more! Yesterday I discovered that the HD version that came out on blue ray a few months ago is finally available to purchase for streaming. Yay BBC! Yay Internet! Yay Jeeves & Wooster. But most of all, Yay P.G. Wodehouse.

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