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George Clooney 'to make appearance in Downton Abbey'

11 Sep 2014:
Sources suggest Hollywood star will play American guest in a one-off sketch to raise money in a charity fundraiser
From The Simpsons to Nurse Jackie, the most useful (and useless) TV medics

9 Sep 2014: Stuart Jeffries: The deputy mayor of Moscow has recommended that Russian doctors watch House, but what advice might they glean from other fictional physicians? Let Dr Spaceman lead the way
Downton Abbey Britain: an era of silver spoons and poor doors

8 Sep 2014: Britain is becoming a “Downton Abbey-style society”, according to the TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady. The row is a compelling drama
What's on TV in autumn 2014: from Downton Abbey to Black Mirror

8 Sep 2014: Grayson Perry on portraits, a new drama from Steven Soderbergh, more Peaky Blinders, a Cilla Black biopic, and not one but two post-apocalyptic dramas from Sky
The Guest review – sometimes muddled, but always entertaining

4 Sep 2014: Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens plays a stranger who infiltrates the home of a grieving family in a gleeful genre mashup, writes Anna Smith
Dan Stevens Q&A – as it happened

1 Sep 2014: You may know him as ever-so-nice Matthew Crawley from Downton Abbey – but he’s turned into an all-American badass for new film The Guest. Dan Stevens answered readers questions
No more Mr Nice Guy: Viv Groskop’s recent interview
Downton Abbey series five trailer: bad secrets and scandalous suggestions

1 Sep 2014: Trailerwatch: First official trailer for fifth series of the historical smash welcomes Richard E Grant and Anna Chancellor to the cast, and reveals a new zinger from the Dowager Countess
Sherlock, Downton Abbey: what the US can learn from our TV exports

31 Aug 2014: Neil Midgley: As Benedict Cumberbatch’s detective scoops seven Emmys, what is the secret of successful UK drama?
Dan Stevens: no more Mr Nice Guy

30 Aug 2014:
It's two years since Dan Stevens took the plunge and left the lords and ladies of Downton. He tells Viv Groskop how Hollywood toughened him up
Richard Attenborough remembered at 2014 Emmys – video

Video (1min 09sec), 26 Aug 2014:
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Joanne Froggatt and Minnie Driver pay tribue to the late Sir Richard Attenborough at the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles
Emmys 2014: let's hear it for the losers

22 Aug 2014: Who cares who should win? From Jon Hamm in Mad Men to the entirety of The Big Bang Theory, here’s who has no chance at all
Blockbusters on the fringe: the shows riffing on pop cultural giants

21 Aug 2014: If you want to see Breaking Bad, Star Wars, Fawlty Towers, Doctor Who and Downton Abbey at Edinburgh you can, thanks to condensed parodies. Are they satisfying to perform – and do the performers risk a lawsuit?
Downton Abbey series five faces fresh dilemmas of roaring 20s

14 Aug 2014:
A Labour government, changes in sexual mores and the decline of the aristocracy will test characters both upstairs and down
Downton Abbey in hot water over bottle blooper

14 Aug 2014: Launch of fifth series of ITV period drama, set in 1924, upstaged by modern flagon of H20 in promo photo spotted by fan
Downton Abbey fans offered chance to bid for night at Highclere Castle

1 Aug 2014:
Taste of Crawley family life under hammer in auction coinciding with first world war centenary and in aid of armed forces charities