{"id":4495,"date":"2012-11-22T11:31:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T18:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/sisterrosemovies\/?p=4495"},"modified":"2012-11-22T11:37:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T18:37:38","slug":"pbs-to-revisit-downton-abbey-with-sunday-special-nov-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/sisterrosemovies\/2012\/11\/pbs-to-revisit-downton-abbey-with-sunday-special-nov-25\/","title":{"rendered":"PBS to revisit &#8216;Downton Abbey&#8217; with Sunday special Nov 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/234\/2012\/11\/downtonabbey.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4496\" title=\"downtonabbey\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/234\/2012\/11\/downtonabbey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"250\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho will marry whom?\u201d and \u201cWill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-2038106\/DOWNTON-ABBEY-SPECIAL-Brendan-Coyle-plays-Mr-Bates-available.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mr. Bates<\/a> get out of prison?\u201d are two of the driving questions that lingered as season two of PBS\u2019s highest-rated Masterpiece series came to an end in 2011. As a teaser and fundraising event, PBS is airing a special, hosted by Angela Lansbury, that revisits key moments of the first two seasons, sums up where the series left off and entices with clips about Downtown Abbey\u2019s upstairs\/downstairs\u00a0 folks post-World War I, coming up in season three. The new season premieres Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDowntown Abbey Revisited\u201d is filled with interviews with the actors and producers, but not a word is mentioned about the future of Dame Maggie Smith\u2019s character, Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham (rumors hint Smith is leaving the series). However, fans of the show will be very interested in seeing a new character, Martha Levinson (Shirley MacLaine), Lady Grantham\u2019s mother from America. How will the two amazing actresses interact and play off one another?<\/p>\n<p>Season three of this period soap opera, co-created and written by Julian Fellows, is about <a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/blogs\/ncr-today\/pbs-revisit-downton-abbey-sunday-special\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u00a0click here to continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1Gf0a_juE5c\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1Gf0a_juE5c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWho will marry whom?\u201d and \u201cWill Mr. Bates get out of prison?\u201d are two of the driving questions that lingered as season two of PBS\u2019s highest-rated Masterpiece series came to an end in 2011. As a teaser and fundraising event, PBS is airing a special, hosted by Angela Lansbury, that revisits key moments of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1986,68,72,73],"tags":[2280,2269,2270,2278,2274,2273,2277,2275,2272,2271,2279,2276],"class_list":["post-4495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama","category-social-justice","category-sr-rose-faith-and-media","category-story","category-television","tag-actor-who-plays-mr-bates","tag-downton-abbey-downton-abbey-season-3","tag-downtown-abbey-revisited","tag-elizabeth-mcgovern","tag-gosford-park","tag-julian-fellows","tag-maggie-smith-rumor","tag-maggie-smith-to-retire","tag-masterpiece-drama","tag-masterpiece-pbs","tag-mr-bates","tag-shirley-mclaine"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PBS to revisit &#039;Downton Abbey&#039; 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