Downton Abbey

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The versatile star talks about work in sitcoms, soaps, and the new film What Happens Next.

The Simpsons hits 500 episodes. Also: Kenny Powers, Ricky Gervais, and Stephen Merchant are here to push your buttons. 

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Come fill a virtual seat for the Grammys, won’t you? Also, return of The Walking Dead, rise of the Comic Book Men, and more.

We black it up, the Pod F. Tompkast shows shocking prolificacy, and Jake Fogelnest says you don’t like Lana Del Rey because you’re ugly and poor. 

Sound the thunderous NFL Films instrumentals, get Madonna out of storage, and set the DVR for Luck—it’s game day.

Maggie Smith’s perpetually aggrieved Dowager Countess is in for a right proper decorum-off on the third season of Downton Abbey—a.k.a Dynasty for people who pretend to have never heard of Dynasty—what with the announ...

David Milch, Michael Mann, and Dustin Hoffman bring you Luck, which we've been waiting for for 4,000 years. Also: Fox animated shows, the Pro Bowl, and the SAG awards.

Tonight would be a good chance to sample Shameless and see where you land on it. That is, unless you're going to watch football, like most Americans. Also: American Idol, weirdly.

Congratulations, fans of virtual currency! Tonight's episode of The Good Wife is for you! Also: Lots of brand new episodes, a Napoleon Dynamite cartoon, and football.

It's a big night in TV land, with new seasons of Downton Abbey, Shameless, and Californication; a bunch of new series; and a host of returning shows as well.

A comedy podcast that has nothing to do with alt-comedy, The Sound Of Young  America becomes Bullseye, and WTF makes a case against marriage. 

The Downton Abbey star talks about playing a countess, getting an Oscar nomination with her second film, and the terror of sitcom acting.

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Presuming you haven't torrented the show's second series already, this is a happy day for U.S. Downton Abbey fans, as PBS announced the second series of the multiple-Emmy-winning series will debut Sun., Jan.

This week, a reader asks us to help work out a list of the best TV-show theme songs in history, but demands we acknowledge The Rockford Files first.

ITV has committed to a third season of the upstairs/downstairs drama Downton Abbey, the BBC reports, proving that sometimes success on television is as simple as telling a compelling story full of rich characters, and then setting a Guinness World...

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Aside from already holding the unofficial record of “Show Most Recommended To Moms,” the PBS Masterpiece series Downton Abbey has a new, more recognized title: The Guinness World Records has awarded it the honor of “Highest Criti...