Bonneville has found himself at the heart of two of the UK’s biggest film franchises with fantastic news for fans of both. Earlier this week it was reported that Paddington 3 plans are underway. In typically British diffident fashion, the actor himself told Zoe Ball there was “forward momentum” and the film was “somewhere on the horizon.” He has been promoting his new film, To Olivia, but everyone has been asking him about the imminent return to Downton.

On this evening’s Graham Norton Show, Bonneville opens up about the emotional power of To Livia, which tells the heartbreaking story of how author Roald Dahl’s daughter Olivia died in childhood.

The actor says: “It’s about grief and the extraordinary pain of losing a child. It…