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Downton Abbey to be inundated with new exciting house guests in Season Four

By Liam Carroll March 15, 2013

Downton Abbey, a.k.a. that show about those British people that you keep meaning to watch but oh wait there's a Dance Moms marathon on right now, is about to enter it's fourth season of meaningful stolen glances and angry whispers. And along with that, there will be some new faces.

Expect to meet such new characters as Lord Gillingham (Tom Cullen), an old friend of Lady Mary, Lady Shackleton (Dame Harriet Walter), an old friend of the Dowager Countess, and Mr. Green (Nigel Harman), a valet who presumably has some old friends just off screen or something. Plus, national treasure Shirley MacLaine will reprise her role as Martha Levinson for the upcoming season's Christmas special. Together they'll help illustrate what happens when Post-Victorian people stop being polite, and start getting real in a biting, sardonic way that still kind of resembles politeness.

Below, watch some stuff that you missed during that Dance Moms marathon.

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