She also liked the television series "Downton Abbey" and the British rock band Muse.
For many Americans, watching "Downton Abbey" must be like indulging in a guilty passion.
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British period drama Downton Abbey has become a global sensation since hitting our screens in 2010.
Now you see that everywhere in series like Downton Abbey and Mad Men, and even in sitcoms.
But Downton Abbey is also a rejoinder to the current rage (in both senses) of class warfare.
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"Downton Abbey" was the most honored miniseries, with six Emmys, including for directing, writing, cinematography and costumes.
The Selfridge program is not like Downton Abbey, another popular PBS series brought to the US from England.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, Downton Abbey writer and co-creator Julian Fellowes feels a bit like he is "riding a whirlwind".
Class does not just speak its name in "Downton Abbey, " it screams it.
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Really, if you've watched Maggie Smith's blunt character, Lady Violet Crawley, in "Downton Abbey, " you have watched my aunt.
Shows in the running for best drama include Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey.
Lovers of standard British costume dramas ("Downton Abbey" fans, you know who you are) shouldn't be put off, he added.
In the last 30 years, he has dubbed everyone from John Malkovich and Harrison Ford to Downton Abbey's Hugh Bonneville.
Sienna Miller and Imelda Staunton are shortlisted for their roles in Hitchcock drama The Girl, while Downton Abbey is nominated for best drama.
Sansa is introduced to Lady Olenna, the Queen of Thorns essentially the Game of Thrones counterpart to Cousin Violet from Downton Abbey.
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Downton Abbey is what George Gilder would call the entropic disruption to the background noise of revolt against the old world.
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Netflix did not, however, announce a method that would allow my girlfriend to watch Downton Abbey without affecting my Netflix Suggests queue.
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It was a good night for British talent in the television categories, which saw ITV1 period drama Downton Abbey named best mini-series.
Downton Abbey actor Dan Stevens will make his Broadway debut this autumn, playing a suspected fortune hunter opposite The Help's Jessica Chastain.
Just last week, Amazon announced that Prime Instant Video will soon become the exclusive online subscription home for PBS hit Downton Abbey.
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Downton Abbey has been nominated for 16 Emmy Awards, which are due to be handed out in Los Angeles on 23 September.
In 2011 she released her first nonfiction work, Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle.
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The paper says "her departure is yet another setback for the BBC show that many feel has been overshadowed by its ITV rival Downton Abbey".
Julian Fellowes's Downton Abbey had been up for 16 nominations, which was the most a British drama has received at the Emmys.
Downton Abbey and Girls have almost nothing in common, including their viewers.
" Prime Instant Video will continue to be the exclusive subscription home through Season 4 and, if produced, Season 5 of "Downton Abbey.
These are just a handful of the homes where they were living large around the same time as the "Downton Abbey" story lines.
"Downton Abbey" chronicles the lives of the patrician Crawley family and their servants in a fictional country house in Yorkshire, in northern England.
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Stevens is currently filming the third series of Downton Abbey and is on the judging panel for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
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