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OK, Downtonians, let Season 5 commence! Everyone take a deep breath, and let’s begin… Once upon a time, a Yankee troubadour named for a Welsh poet sang, “the times, they are a-changin’,” and it is the effect of the changing…

This is IT, Downtonians! Season 5 of Downton Abbey premiers this Sunday night, January 4. For months it seemed as if this new season would never get here, and now it’s here! We hope you’ve enjoyed the Downton Abbey Dish blog…

It’s that time of year again, Downtonians – the time when visions of sugarplums dance in your head, and visions of Downton Abbey dance around Manhattan. Yes, last week Downton Abbey hit town like a Nor’easter bringing Hugh Bonneville, Lesley…

Get into the glitz of the Downton Abbey Season 5 event, in New York! Cast members Hugh Bonneville (Lord Grantham), Phyllis Logan (Hughes), Rob James-Collier (Thomas), Lesley Nicol (Patmore), and Laura Carmichael (Lady Edith) made the trip across the Pond…

In anticipation of the return of “Downton Abbey” and “Martha Bakes Season 4” in January, PBS invited Martha Stewart and her team to create a “Gingerbread Abbey.” She did just that, and the result is deliciously stunning. FYI, it took…

Manners can make or break a dinner guest at Downton Abbey. Think you can hold your own? Take our etiquette quiz, and remember — the Dowager Countess is watching.

Although Manhattan is a bit too small for a sprawling estate like Downton Abbey, there was certainly no shortage of urban glamor during the Gilded Age. Wealthy industrialists like the Vanderbilts, Astors and Rockefellers engaged each other in costly games…

STOP THE PRESSES! Forget about any other Downton news going on this week because, hello, Sexiest Man Alive in the house… Ho, Ho, Holy Cow!: For months there have been rumors that George Clooney was going to make a guest…

I hope you all had a wondrous Thanksgiving thinking about all the things you have to be thankful for – and I hope that one of the things on your list is all the fantastic programming PBS brings into our…

OK, Downtonians, t-minus 7 weeks and counting till the January 4 premiere and the excitement continues to build! Last weekend I was grounded, stuck in my apartment with a bad cold. So I thought, what a great excuse to pull…

As Halloween nears, it’s time for ghosts of seasons past to come out, for thoughts to turn to things that go bump in the night and, more importantly, to what am I going to go dressed as? Will you be…

OK kids, time to take a breather from binge-watching The Roosevelts to get back to another crazy, mixed-up family: The Crawleys. The Roosevelts series was fabulous though, wasn’t it? But I was disappointed about one thing: That Ken Burns egregiously…

As you enter the The Costumes of Downton Abbey exhibit at the Winterthur Museum in Wilmington, Delware, you are greeted by this very fitting quote from Oscar Wilde, “I love acting because it’s so much more real than life.”   Lidz…

Greetings Downtonians! This summer has flown by and I feel that I have been a bit remiss in attending to my Downton Abbey Dispatch duties. But now that there’s a little nip in the air, I’ve been thinking about pulling…