Downton Abbey… in Lego? Hey, if it’s good enough for the Winchester Pub and 221b Baker Street, it has to be good enough for Downton Abbey, right? After all, with last Sunday’s series 4 premiere topping 10 million viewers, making it the biggest drama series premiere in the history of PBS, it was only a […]
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Well, our one-day departure from dishing about Downton Abbey has ended. Before we talk about Sunday’s premiere of series 4, you may be wondering just what Michelle Dockery has been up to during the hiatus between series 4 and series 5 filming. Aside from her guest appearances with fellow Downton star, Elizabeth McGovern, for several […]
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With everyone west of the Atlantic gearing up for tonight’s long-awaited American premiere of the 4th season of Downton Abbey, there have been a myriad of recaps surface over the last several days to help those out at the last minute. By this time most, I would hope, are caught up with the goings on […]
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As we have mentioned over the last several years, series like Downton Abbey don’t grow on trees. While we all may understand and recognize its greatness, you know you’ve arrived when you become the subject of not one, but several brilliant Latenight with Jimmy Fallon parodies, when you actually make the cut on Saturday Night […]
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In just a few short weeks, the Downton Abbey Christmas Special lands on ITV1. Never mind that most are in a panic at the moment when they hear there are only 16 days until Christmas. The glass is half full of water folks are also accessing their collective mind palace and calculating that there are […]
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You can already drink wine like the Crawleys. Thanks to Marks and Spencer, everyone can now have lips as red and hands as soft as Lady Mary. Could Grey be the new Black? And, now, you can decorate your house to look just like the imposing stately home, too. Two shades of grey paint, Empire […]
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A picture is worth a thousand words refers to the notion that a complex idea can be conveyed with just a single still image. With that phrase in mind, the announcement the world has been waiting for was made on the official Downton Abbey Twitter account last night proclaiming that as of Saturday, there were […]
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While not quite the day that the whole of Planet Earth has been waiting almost a year for, it is just about the next best thing to sliced bread with the highly-anticipated release of the first video from Downton Abbey 4. This past week, if you were to look up the word ‘tease’ in the […]
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Appearing at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Los Angeles on Tuesday evening, along with executive producer Gareth Neame, the womwn of Downton Abbey seemed right at home in the 21st century. The Dowager Countess may have cringed by the amount of electricity in the room, but it was like old home week […]
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As if your favorite British period drama wasn’t already taking over every waking moment in your life wondering what creator Julian Fellowes has in store for us in series 4, it’s time to maximize the retail and merchandising potential, which is somewhat uncommon for a British drama series. Recently, Wines That Rock, announced distribution of […]
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