• 14 ‘Downton Abbey’ must-dos before tonights S5 premiere!

    14 ‘Downton Abbey’ must-dos before tonights S5 premiere!

    Panicked at the thought you’re not ready for tonight’s series 5 premiere of Downton Abbey on PBS? Not to worry. The great folks over at Masterpiece have thought of everything…again! The one thing you have to do, however, is commit to drop everything and get ready for the Downton Abbey Season 5 premiere with these […]

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  • Make Mrs. Patmore proud with the ‘Unofficial Downton Abbey Cookbook’

    Make Mrs. Patmore proud with the ‘Unofficial Downton Abbey Cookbook’

    Given the fact that America is within days (hours to be exact!) of the series 5 premiere of Downton Abbey (Sunday, January 4, 2015 at 9:00pET/8:00pCT on PBS), it’s time to start thinking about that fabulous watching party you’ve always wanted to have leading up to one of the episodes this season. The upside is […]

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  • Father Brown to make cobblestone streets of Kembleford safe in 2015

    Father Brown to make cobblestone streets of Kembleford safe in 2015

    The BBC has confirmed that Father Brown will get back on his bike making the streets of Kembleford safe once more beginning 5 January on BBC 1 at 2:15p. Running weekdays for the next few weeks, Mark Williams will don the cassock once again, using his intuitive skills rather than a Sherlock Holmes deduction method to not […]

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  • First glimpse at Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall coming to BBC2 and PBS

    First glimpse at Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall coming to BBC2 and PBS

    Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies are headed to telly in the not-too-distant future. Scheduled to transmit in the UK on 21 January beginning at 9pm on BBC2 and tentatively set for its American premiere on PBS beginning March 29, 2015, the small screen adaptation of Mantel’s Tudor novels […]

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  • Happy 80th – Dame Maggie Smith!

    Happy 80th – Dame Maggie Smith!

    Fresh on the heels of one of the all-time greats of the acting world (Dame Judi Dench) turning 80 earlier this month on December 9, we now have the brilliant opportunity to celebrate another ‘Dame’ as she turns 80 today – Dame Maggie Smith. Although she has achieved worldwide recognition from her portrayal of Professor Minerva […]

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  • Countdown to Downton; Isobel vs. Violet and Mr. Carson + Mrs. Hughes

    Countdown to Downton; Isobel vs. Violet and Mr. Carson + Mrs. Hughes

    With the 5th season series premiere of Downton Abbey a mere week away, America is preparing to let all phone calls go to voicemail when PBS’ Masterpiece series returns to Downton beginning at 9:00p ET/8:00p CT on Sunday, January 4, 2015. Since it’s been almost a year since we last visited the Crawleys, it’s time for a bit of catch-up […]

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  • George Clooney arrives at Downton Abbey – Dowager Countess swoons!

    George Clooney arrives at Downton Abbey – Dowager Countess swoons!

    OMG! It’s Christmas at Downton and Lord Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville) seems to be facing financial ruin once again. In true It’s A Wonderful Life fashion, he’s beginning to wonder if his family may be better off without him but divine intervention in the form of a very special heavenly body (in the form of […]

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  • Martha Stewart’s Gingerbread Abbey is just in time for the holidays!

    Martha Stewart’s Gingerbread Abbey is just in time for the holidays!

    Leave it to the creative brilliance of Martha Stewart to make a bit of holiday greatness out of the most highly-anticipated television series premiere of 2015. Thankfully, that premiere is only 4 days into the new year so there’s not long to wait! Martha Stewart and her team have created a “Gingerbread Abbey”—a stunning likeness […]

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  • ‘Imitation Game’ star Benedict Cumberbatch talks Bletchley Park

    ‘Imitation Game’ star Benedict Cumberbatch talks Bletchley Park

    Labeling it an ‘overwhelming experience’, Benedict Cumberbatch, star of The Imitation Game, talked recently about his filming the story of wartime code-breaker Alan Turing in the place where he actually lived and worked, Bletchley Park. It was Turing, the troubled genius mathematician, who spent the Second World War building an early computer that could crack encoded […]

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  • Fancy a night’s stay at Highclere…sort of?

    Fancy a night’s stay at Highclere…sort of?

    If you are wondering what it would be like to be a part of the Crawley family and stay overnight at Highclere Castle, the setting for Downton Abbey, now is your chance…sort of. Beginning Valentine’s Day, the Highclere estate is offering guests the opportunity to access your inner-most Dowager Countess and stay the night in […]

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