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"Just like in high school, a super-popular brainiac is sort of a unicorn in the world of TV, but PBS has become just that to me in the past couple years, serving up Downton Abbey stateside&amp;amp;#8212;then Call the Midwife, which I&amp;#x27;m a fan of, and various miniseries starring cute guys in tails. I haven&amp;#x27;t watched this much PBS since I was a Reading-Rainbow-fanatic toddler. So it&amp;#x27;s no surprise that I&amp;#x27;ve been happily squirreling away goss out of the PBS TCA panels all day today. Let me share the best stuff with my fellow British drama lovers: On Downton, a lot of the season&amp;#x27;s fun will come from Edith&amp;#x27;s new job. You might remember that Edith scored a journalist post and, since actress Laura Carmichael referred to her as &amp;quot;the Carrie Bradshaw of the &amp;#x27;20s,&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;m thinking there&amp;#x27;s going to be a lot more than sitting at the typewriter involved. And you don&amp;#x27;t have to worry about an icky in-laws hookup. I hadn&amp;#x27;t even gotten far enough past the deaths of Sybil and Matthew to worry about Branson and Lady Mary getting romantic, but apparently others had. Luckily, show-runners put that to rest. Meanwhile, two dashing TV gentlemen are about to get their PBS close-ups. Matthew Rhys (above), a.k.a. Keri Russell&amp;#x27;s husband and co-spy on The Americans, is the latest actor to take on Mr. Darcy&amp;amp;#8212;he&amp;#x27;ll play him in the miniseries Death Comes to Pemberley, based on the P.D. James novel. If you still miss Smash (and I&amp;#x27;m not judging if you do), take heart: Your Derek, a.k.a. Jack Davenport, is set to star in Breathless, a sixties-era miniseries about an ob-gyn in London. And speaking of labor and delivery... Call the Midwife&amp;#x27;s Miranda Hart is just as darling in real life. Please tell me someone else is hopelessly in love with Chummy, the tall, gawky nurse on the show. At Call&amp;#x27;s TCA panel, she cracked up the crowd by confessing to a crush on Matthew Perry. And last but not least, because I can never not go crazy for a pic of the Downton girls in modern-day garb, please enjoy this group shot. Edith, you hottie! What Brit shows are you loving these days? Photo: PBS, Getty"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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