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Harry Potter's Maggie Smith was the big wig in "Downton Abbey," but now she'll have some competition from an unlikely source -- Shirley MacLaine. The 77-year-old actress will play Martha Levinson, the mother of Lady Grantham, played by Elizabeth McGovern. It will likely be a battle of the in-laws ...

The sophomore season of "Downton Abbey" was a tough one for audiences of the popular ITV and PBS series -- but there really wasn't much that could be done. Elizabeth McGovern, the actress behind Countess Cora Crawley, agrees that it was tough. But if fans and critics want to blame anything for it ...

It would be hard to imagine "Downton Abbey" without the prim and proper Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, but it may be a reality sooner than we think. British newspaper The Daily Mail says that Maggie Smith has asked the producers of "Downton Abbey" to write her out of the show a ...

No one needs to tell "Downton Abbey" that it's a hit not only in the United Kingdom, but also in the United States. And PBS is getting even more proof as numbers roll in on how many tuned in for the season finale. In fact, 5.4 million people watched the two-hour "Christmas special" of the show, u ...

The recent Emmy attention for the PBS series "Downton Abbey" has certainly helped the program grow in viewership. The Season 2 premiere of the show, which aired Jan. 9, pulled in 4.2 million viewers, according to The Nielsen Co. That's up 18 percent over its first season average, and is actually ...