Downton Abbey Season 3: First Look!
Matt Richenthal at .Ding! Ding! It's about to be on between Maggie Smith's beloved Dowager Countess on Downton Abbey and Shirley MacLaine's Martha, who will come on board Season 3 of this BBC favorite as Lady Cora's mother.
Over the weekend, at the American Film Institute’s 40th Life Achievement Award ceremony honoring MacLaine, TV Land treated attendees to a sneak peek at the first confrontation between these characters.
Will Martha be a match for Violet Crawley? It certainly appears that way:
Downton Abbey is expected to air in America some time in early 2013. While you watch, consider: Who will die on Season 3?
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