Only Ten?

Garden & Gun recently listed ten reason why they love Downton Abbey, including a comparison of Mary and Scarlett O'Hara.

Maggie Smith

“I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I’m not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.”

Smith sat down for a rather long interview with the Toronto Star.  She was being honored as the 2012 recipient of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s Legacy Award.

Needless to say, this season of Downton Abbey should be a barn burner!

Check out The Unofficial Downton Abbey Cookbook post at Cookbook Of The Day.

Downton Abbey Alert

It will be a full four months before the third season of Downton Abbey, but that cannot stop die-hard fans.  Over at Vulture, they have a fan made trailer (spoiled by a thirty second commercial for a video game with fighting aliens, which is a perfect mesh for Abbey fans who want nothing more than to don Edwardian garb, make high tea, and shoot aliens from their Xbox... but I digress...) featuring the arrival of Shirley MacLaine and a bit of fan laughter in the middle.  Still it is a glimpse of Downton to come...