The show began with the Downton Abbey score followed immediately by tweed suits and English country weekend outfits like jodphurs, Fair Isle sweaters and flannel jackets.
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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These are just a handful of the homes where they were living large around the same time as the "Downton Abbey" story lines.
The Earl of Grantham, the owner of Downton Abbey, is deferential to the Duke of Crowborough merely because the latter was born higher in the aristocratic scale.
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She also liked the television series "Downton Abbey" and the British rock band Muse.
Stevens is currently filming the third series of Downton Abbey and is on the judging panel for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
Whether this weekend finds you blowing two feet of snow off the driveway or counting the hours until "Downton Abbey, " make time to watch the video of Dr. Ben Carson speaking to the White House prayer breakfast this week.
From the very first episode we understand the glory (and expense) of Downton Abbey draws on the ample funds Lady Grantham brought to the marriage.
The sprawling British estate is where Downton Abbey is shot, the wildly popular PBS series that depicts daily life in a British mansion during the early 20th century.
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And Phyllis Logan, speaking for the cast of "Downton Abbey" when they won outstanding ensemble cast in a drama series, crowed, "Shut the front windows!"
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For example, throughout this third season of the PBS's "Downton Abbey, " my husband and I were constantly cranking up the volume or rewinding the recorded show to catch the dowager countess's zingers.
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The Selfridge program is not like Downton Abbey, another popular PBS series brought to the US from England.
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Sienna Miller and Imelda Staunton are shortlisted for their roles in Hitchcock drama The Girl, while Downton Abbey is nominated for best drama.
They seemed not to notice that a uniformed staff was serving them with an obsequiousness that makes the servants in "Downton Abbey" seem positively revolutionary.
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It had led to the Scottish broadcaster dropping several ITV drama series, including episodes of Midsomer Murders and the first series of the acclaimed period drama Downton Abbey.
Second-most watched: the season premier of Downton Abbey.
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The most obvious take-away from "Downton Abbey" is to diversify investments, a lesson the earl learns after squandering much of his American wife's fortune on an investment in a Canadian railway filing for bankruptcy.
"We are not going to be able to make Downton Abbey or the X Factor, but we will produce good quality local programming, " she says.
Downton Abbey defined the different characters very well.
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Ms. McGovern, on the other hand, plays the stately Countess of Grantham in "Downton Abbey, " but in real life, we know she is a proper rock chick, with the guitar, band and leather pants to prove it.
"Downton Abbey" was the most honored miniseries, with six Emmys, including for directing, writing, cinematography and costumes.
"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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The paper reported on success for Downton Abbey as best TV mini-series and Kate Winslet for lead actress in a TV mini-series or movie, for Mildred Pierce.
Dan Stevens, the late, lamented heartthrob of the wildly popular PBS series, Downton Abbey, is slumming it these days, portraying a Brooklyn drug trafficker in a new film currently being shot in Brooklyn.
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While we of course know that the Super Bowl will attract an enormous audience, we also feel a responsibility to our millions of ardent Downton Abbey fans who are caught up in the story and looking forward to a new episode on Sunday.
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They may elicit comparison with Upstairs, Downstairs or Downton Abbey, but unlike the late Victorian English country house concept popularized by TV, these highly educated estate managers are forging a new profession.
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Naturally, global girls outgrow such local traditions as arranged marriages, dowry and bride price, which have not been exclusive to African tradition (see the English period drama, "Downton Abbey") but have certainly lingered longer in homes of African descent.
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