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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Off the Map star Aimee Garcia has joined Dexter, a show rep tells TVGuide.com.
Garcia will play Jamie, the younger sister of ...
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It's hard to imagine the father from My Three Sons in a mess like this. TV's newest widowed dad, Dexter Morgan, has left his kids at home to get the goods on a suspect he thinks may be a murderer. If that's true, Dex will probably have to kill the guy, just as he's offed 60-odd other psychos since the Showtime series began in 2006. Of course, Dexter himself might be the next casualty if he keeps the kids and their new nanny waiting much longer.
"It's definitely not easy balancing single fatherhood with the sort of affliction Dexter has," Michael C. Hall says with wry amusement on the set in Los Angeles, where Season 5 finds his character dealing with the aftermath of his wife Rita's death. In case you missed the most jaw-dropping twist in Dexter history, here's what went down in last season's finale...
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Question: I was surprised to see no mention in your dream Emmy ballot for The Tudors' Maria Doyle Kennedy. Maybe she isn't eligible until next year, but this woman has knocked me out on a show that's full of eye-popping men and settings. She is the main reason to watch the series, as her portrayal of Catherine of Aragon is so heart-wrenching and understatedly beautiful. I don't know where she came from, but she has certainly made an impression. I'm talking like Edie Falco-level acting. She does more in a minute-long scene with three words of dialogue than I have seen anyone else achieve. She is so graceful, regal, radiant and strong, especially compared with the bland Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn. I know we are supposed to be bewitched by Anne, but Catherine is the one who leaps off the screen. Yet I have seen next to nothing written on her, or the show in general. Is it because of all the upfronts and finales? If so, please catch up on this show, if only to watch for her, and let ...
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