Hilarious Trailer for ‘Fackham Hall’ Comedy Spoofing ‘Downton Abbey’
by Alex Billington
October 28, 2025
Source: YouTube
“It was a different time… A simpler time. A time of manners. A time of modesty. And a time of murder.” Bleecker Street has revealed the first official trailer for Fackham Hall, a spoof comedy hitting theaters in December coming up. We haven’t had a good spoof in years! This comedy is riffing on the Downton Abbey series, which just concluded (so they say) with the Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale in September this year. A new porter forms an odd bond with the youngest daughter of a well-known UK family. Meanwhile the Davenport family, headed by Lord & Lady Davenport, deals with the epic disaster of their daughter’s wedding. “Tea will be spilled. Crumpets will be crumpeted.” Ahahaha. If Downton Abbey and Airplane! had a love child born with a silver spoon up its arse, it’d be Fackham Hall – the raucous new whodunit comedy. The comedy stars Ben Radcliffe as Eric, Thomasin McKenzie, Katherine Waterston, Emma Laird, Tom Felton, Lizzie Hopley, Jimmy Carr, Sue Johnston, Tom Goodman-Hill, and Damian Lewis as Lord Davenport. This looks like so much fun – a proper spoof with some seriously ridiculous jokes that might even be borderline offensive. Yep looks better than all the Downton Abbey movies – have a good time.
Here’s the first official trailer (+ poster) for Jim O’Hanlon’s comedy Fackham Hall, direct from YouTube:
“Born to aristocracy. Bred for idiocy.” A lovable pick-pocket Eric Noone (Radcliffe) moves into the English manor house of Fackham Hall. He has a forbidden romance with Rose Davenport (McKenzie) and then is framed for a murder, while Archibald becomes Eric’s rival and vies for Rose’s hand in marriage. At the same time, rivalries are spilling over in the Davenport family, led by Lord & Lady Davenport (Waterston), as they also weather the failure of the wedding of their eldest daughter to her caddish cousin. Fackham Hall is directed by Irish filmmaker Jim O’Hanlon, director of the movies All in the Game, Of Two Minds, 100 Streets, Your Christmas or Mine? 1 & 2, and tons of TV work including episodes of “Catastrophe” and “Trying” most recently. The screenplay is written by Jimmy Carr & Patrick Carr, Andrew Dawson & Steve Dawson, Tim Inman. Produced by Mila Cottray, Danny Perkins, Kris Thykier. Bleecker Street will release O’Hanlon’s Fackham Hall movie in theaters starting December 5th, 2025 later this year. Look any good?
