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Consumer Editor Emma McKinney discovers a small Midland handbag firm with a big list of celebrity clients - including the Queen, Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith.

The show The Guinness Book calls "the most critically well-received show in the world" returns to VisionTV on February 22nd, airing all of Season 1 and Season 2. Season 2 will be a Canadian broadcast premiere for the network, while the repeat broadcast of Season 1 will give new fans a chance to view the show for the first time from the very ... (more)

TO SAY that Tena Desae is following Freida Pinto's path to popularity isn't true.

The news that Shirley MacLaine is joining the cast of Downton Abbey next season to play Martha, mother of the wealthy American-born Lady Grantham, comes as something of a disappointment to aficionados of the ludicrously popular British TV series.

Commons researcher Matt Zarb-Cousin, who works for Labour MP and shadow justice minister Andrew Slaughter, has apologised after tweeting: 'Congratulations this morning to Queen Elizabeth II.

In this land of egalitarianism, viewers are eating up this upstairs-downstairs tale - and rooting for the British gentry - with a silver spoon.

'Woman in Black's' Daniel Radcliffe Reflects on Co-Stars, Directors and the Bizarre Place He Became Harry Potter As part of BAFTA-New York's tribute to the 22-year-old British star, Radcliffe and THR's Scott Feinberg had an hour-long conversation about his life and career.

"Downton Abbey" fans got some exciting news earlier today when it was announced that Academy Award winner and all-around beloved icon Shirley Maclaine will be joining the hit show on PBS for its third season .

Tony Award winner Karen Ziemba will star as Charlotte Bartlett, the overbearing chaperone of Lucy Honeychurch, in the new musical A Room With a View, based on the E.M. Forster novel, getting its world premiere by The Old Globe in San Diego.

Downton Abbey , is an Edwardian period PBS series that has developed a loyal following.

Kate Winslet has gone head-to-head with Dame Maggie Smith and Emily Watson to win a coveted Screen Actors Guild award in Los Angeles.

Three charming but foolhardy crooks have the idea to use a fire engine as the perfect getaway vehicle for their new scheme.

Hit British period drama Downton Abbey won yet another award on Wednesday night when it was named Best Drama at the National Television Awards in London.

Last night, I drove through L.A.'s rain-scrubbed air to the new Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore to hear Jo Walton read from Among Others , which is now out in paperback.