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BBC Cancels 'Upstairs Downstairs'
- "Upstairs Downstairs" won't return to BBC. The network has canceled the drama after two seasons. "From 'Call the Midwife' to 'Bird Song' and 'The Syndicate,' 2012 has be...
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'Upstairs Downstairs' Star Jean Marsh Suffers Stroke, Will Miss Filming
- More drama offscreen at the rebooted PBS drama 'Upstairs Downstairs.' It's been announced that star and co-creator Jean Marsh will miss the first few episodes of Season ...
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Alex Kingston Joins 'Upstairs Downstairs'
- The runaway success of 'Downton Abbey' has led to big shakeups at rival PBS period drama, the rebooted 'Upstairs Downstairs.' Following news that co-creator Eileen At...
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First Nighter: Upstairs Downstairs Makes Sparkling PBS Return
- It's difficult to pinpoint when the name Masterpiece Theater became a pejorative. Not before the two early and extremely popular WGBH/PBS series The First Churchills an...
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DVDs: Downton Abbey Frothy Fun
- After 40 years, the creators of the landmark TV series Upstairs, Downstairs announced they'd be relaunching the series this spring... only to see Julian Fellowes launch ...
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An Old Favorite Gets a Makeover and Returns to PBS
- Tell the parlormaid to bring some tea, dust off the antimacassars and stiffen those upper lips: 'Upstairs Downstairs' is coming back! The perennial PBS favorite is the l...
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PBS Launching New Sherlock Holmes
- BBC Worldwide and PBS have decided that it's time for a new 'Sherlock Holmes.' The 1984 series, which ran ten years and 41 episodes, had Jeremy Brett as Sherlock and is ...
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Maid heads to ABC: Are there no new ideas in Hollywood?
- This seems like an odd one. ABC is bringing the 2002 Jennifer Lopez movie Maid in Manhattan to the small screen. I'm a sucker for romantic comedies, and I actually like...
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Gareth Hunt dead at 65
- My first introduction to The Avengers, the classic cult 60s show with Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Honor Blackman and Linda Thorson, was actually the second version of th...
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The lives and fortunes of the Bellamy family and their below-stairs servant staff at 165 Eaton Place play out against the social, political and historical backdrop of Edwardian London from 1903 to 1930.