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"PBS has announced that Downton Abbey&amp;#039;s fourth series will premiere in the US early next year. Downton Abbey will open up its fourth series on January 5, 2014 as part of the Masterpiece programming block.  The series will run for eight weeks on the public broadcaster, wrapping up with the series four finale on February 23. Shirley MacLaine will be reprising her role as Lord Crawley&amp;#039;s mother-in-law Martha Levinson in the fourth series, after joining the show in series three. Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Dame Maggie Smith, Joanne Froggatt and Michelle Dockery will also be back for the new episodes. The period drama has found a large audience in the US, even spawning a regular comedy spoof miniseries on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Downton Abbey is expected to premiere series four in the autumn in the UK on ITV. &amp;gt; Downton Abbey cast for season four: Who&amp;#039;s in? Who&amp;#039;s out? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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