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New DVD Releases: Week of Feb. 6, 2012

Father Dowling Mysteries Season 1
Join Father Dowling (Tom Bosley) and Sister Stephanie (Tracy Nelson) as they solve crime in this family-friendly mystery series. All seven episodes from the first season are available on this 2-disc set, which also features the original TV-movie pilot and episode promos....  read full article

Season 41, Episode 23
When a student dies during a controversial clinical trial for a new anti-depressant drug, is it murder or suicide? And as the body count rises, Lewis and Hathaway uncover a web of lies, jealousy, and madness-to which Lewis himself could fall victim.
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Length: 14:51:23
Aired: 9/25/2011
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Season 41, Episode 22
In the run-up to an election at Oxford's prestigious St Gerard's Hall, the college is shocked by a string of brutal murders, someone seems to be picking off the candidates one-by-one. As Lewis and Hathaway investigate further, they become embroiled in a revenge tragedy which began thirty years ago.
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Length: 18:37:18
Aired: 9/18/2011
Season 41, Episode 21
Oxford's last surviving all-female college is bidding farewell to one of its most prominent professors, and a leading light in the feminist movement-but not before Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate two murders that may be linked to the college and its decade-old secrets.
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Length: 18:40:47
Aired: 9/4/2011
Season 41, Episode 7
(Episode 4 of 4) William Boyd adapts his acclaimed 2002 novel about a man making his often precarious way through the 20th century.
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Length: 11:32:00
Aired: 2/27/2011
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New DVD Releases: Week of Feb. 6, 2012

Father Dowling Mysteries Season 1
Join Father Dowling (Tom Bosley) and Sister Stephanie (Tracy Nelson) as they solve crime in this family-friendly mystery series. All seven episodes from the first season are available on this 2-disc set, which also features the original TV-movie pilot and episode promos.... read more

Ratings: Second to the Super Bowl? Downton Abbey!

But did Downton Abbey cover the spread? The PBS series finished second to Super Bowl XLVI among TV viewers.

The Emmy-winning program attracted 4 million viewers at 9 o'clock Sunday, outpacing reruns of CBS' CSI Miami (3.13 million), Fox's animated tandem of Family Guy (2.41 million) and American Dad! (2.29 million) and ABC's The Middle (1.76 million) as the broadcast networks virtually forfeited the night. Those were paltry numbers for those shows, while Downton Abbey wasn't off by much (its first three episode averaged 4.3 million and the fourth 4.8 million before Sunday's 4 million).

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Isn't It Romantic? Romance Author Teresa Medeiros On Downton Abbey

New York Times best-selling author Teresa Medeiros has written more than 20 novels, including Goodnight Tweetheart and her latest historical romance, The Pleasure of Your Kiss, out now. Here she writes about what makes the PBS hit Downton Abbey so downright irresistible:

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Downton Abbey Finale Preview: Love Among the Ruins

"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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Shirley MacLaine Joins Downton Abbey

Shirley MacLaine has joined the cast of Downton Abbey, Variety reports.

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Premiered: January 10, 1971, on PBS
Rating: TV-PG
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Premise: PBS's longest running (and most honored) dramatic series is an Anglophile's delight, featuring British adaptations of literary classics and original works. The first `Masterpiece' was `The First Churchills,' and since then it has won nine Peabodys and 29 Emmys (beginning with Susan Hampshire's Best Actress award for `Churchills'). Its many memorable productions include `Upstairs, Downstairs,' `I, Claudius,' 'The Jewel in the Crown,' `House of Cards,' `Poldark' and `Prime Suspect.'

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