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Downton is the home of the Crawleys, who have been the Earls of Grantham since 1772.
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Met Office forecaster Robin Downton said: The main feature this week, particularly on Tuesday and Wednesday, will be that we are going to see air coming southwards all the way from the Arctic.
Cold winds and snow forecast for UK Matthew Weaver 2010
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Actor Dan Stevens, best known as Downton Abbey's Matthew Crawley – the war hero consigned to a wheelchair for life before making an abrupt recovery – is to be a judge for next year's Man Booker prize.
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"Downton" - which airs on PBS in the U.S. and ITV in the U.K. - is set in the late 1900s, shortly after the Titanic sinks.
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This comes with a "Downton" scene involving a rose-growing contest that mimics, unmistakably, every detail of just such an event in the great wartime film "Mrs. Miniver" 1942 — a movie that rallied more supporters to the British cause than any event short of the German bombing blitz.
Pride and Privilege Dorothy Rabinowitz 2011
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But, for another, filming begins on a whole new season of "Downton" in March, which bodes well for the party to continue beyond "Masterpiece's" 40th.
SFGate: Top News Stories Chronicle dwiegand@sfchronicle.com (David Wiegand 2011
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The modern House of Lords, which is essentially an appointee house, in 1911, only a year before "Downton" starts, lost its power to control legislation.
latimes.com - News 2011
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She called the show a surprise, given that her new series had been in development for several years and that both "Downton" and the original
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With a cast headed by Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern and a delicious Dame Maggie Smith at her Dame Maggie Smith-iest, "Downton" is the story of the Crawley family, British nobles whose dynastic hold on their fortune and the stately mansion of the title is encumbered by something called an entail.
SFGate: Top News Stories Chronicle dwiegand@sfchronicle.com (David Wiegand 2011
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"Downton" dips into out-and-out melodrama at various points, but you barely have time to roll your eyes before it moves on to yet another subplot.
SFGate: Top News Stories Chronicle dwiegand@sfchronicle.com (David Wiegand 2011
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