Elizabeth McGovern
As the Dowager Countess might say, "Good heavens!" Downton Abbey star Elizabeth McGovern is looking to clarify comments she says have now been misinterpreted as a slam against the hit PBS drama.
Speaking in New York at the Tribeca Film Festival to promote her new feature Cheerful Weather for the Wedding, McGovern admitted to the Los Angeles Times that season two of Downton had "a slightly different tone... partly because the show had to...
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Downton Abbey
"It's good to remind people, love is love," says Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. And more than 15 million viewers in the U.S. and U.K. are having a love affair with the palace-size hit, which has reinvigorated period drama and earned raves around the world (100 countries have acquired rights to air the show). Far from a sophomore slump, Season 2 of the sumptuous series about life among the British gentry and their servants during World War I has broadened the story's scope to take in the violence of the battlefields and the impact of the conflict on the residents both upstairs and down.
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Elizabeth McGovern
Downton Abbey ... the musical?
Elizabeth McGovern and Michelle Dockery, co-stars on PBS' Masterpiece series, are planning to release an album, The UK Telegraph reports.
Downton Abbey ordered for a third season
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Donton Abbey
Just as Season 2 of Downton Abbey reaches its conclusion in the U.K., Britain's ITV announced Thursday that it has commissioned a third season of eight episodes.
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Dan Stevens and Michelle Dockery
When Downton Abbey returns for its second season on Jan. 8, 2012 on PBS, the action will pick up two years after that fated garden party in which the Earl of Grantham (Hugh Bonneville) announced that England was at war with Germany.
During Sunday's preview of the hit British series, executive producer Gareth Neame confirmed that the action in the seven-episode second season will take place over two years, just like the first season. "The new series is a similar sort of span," he says. "We start in 1916. The war will come to a conclusion within this series, and the final episodes is the time after the war."
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Supernatural
Supernatural (Friday, 9/8c, The CW)
After a long holiday break, the winter run begins with questions lingering around Sam and his long-lost soul. Namely, was Death able to restore the poor boy's essence of humanity without driving him bonkers? Dean and Bobby are on pins and needles as they ...
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Supernatural
Supernatural (Friday, 9/8c, The CW)
After a long holiday break, the winter run begins with questions lingering around Sam and his long-lost soul. Namely, was Death able to restore the poor boy's essence of humanity without driving him bonkers? Dean and Bobby are on pins and needles as they wait, but they've got other things lighting a fire under them. Most notably, a dragon (!), which seems to be the cause of a series of disappearances of virgins. Dean as dragonslayer? Reason enough to welcome this show back. An hour earlier, on Smallville, all hail the return of...
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Episodes
Only a week into the new year, and already the volume of new TV is overwhelming. Case in point: this Sunday's logjam of new titles on network and cable, ranging from the truly sublime to the hopelessly ridiculous and instantly forgettable. Here's a rundown from best to worst.
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William H. Macy, Blake Johnson, Emmy Rossum
CSI: NY (Friday, 9/8c, CBS)
Ever since JAG signed off nearly six years ago, one of the most frequent topics in my mailbag is the hope that David James Elliott (last seen in ABC's short-lived Scoundrels last summer) will find his way back to CBS. For at least one week, his fans get their wish, as Elliott guests as the FBI agent ex-husband of Sela Ward's Jo. (Do we sense a triangle brewing?) In the case of the week, a guy dressed as a clown shoots a bakery owner, and the investigation reveals a skeleton in Det. Flack's past. (Presumably not wearing floppy shoes.)
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Chris "Ludacris" Bridges and Steven Weber by Virginia Sherwood/NBC
Although the fates of the other Law & Orders are still up in the air, SVU is apparently flush enough to blow its budget on a bevy of familiar faces for its May 22 season finale. In addition to the slew of previously announced guests — including Michael Weston as Olivia Benson's half brother, Ludacris as Fin Tutuola's stepson, and Court TV divas Nancy Grace and Star Jones Reynolds as themselves, unfortunately — Steven Weber (Wings), Lisa Gay Hamilton (The Practice) and Vincent Spano will appear as a lawyer, Luda's mother and an FBI agent, respectively. Also as previously reported, Adam Beach (aka Det. Chester Lake) will make his official debut as a series regular this episode. In fact, production (and thus guest-casting) on the next season of the popular procedural is already under way, with upcoming visitors including Sabrina the Teenage Witch herself, Melissa Joan Hart, and former film star Elizabeth McGovern. And should CI and/or the original flavor go off the air, e...
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