The massive success of ‘Downton Abbey’

February 21, 2012 by admin

To see this title, there are really something to read here. Patton Oswalt obsessively live tweets it from his weekly viewing parties. Katy Perry is using it to distract herself from her marital woes. Roger Ebert has stepped outside the movie realm to praise it in his blog. Saturday Night Live spoofed it. Mob Wives star Big Ang Raiola recited favorite quips for Us Weekly. jimmychoobootsonsale The Onion equated watching one episode with reading a book. And Wednesday night The Soup will celebrate it with a special parody starring RuPaul and drag queens Raven and Shangela.
Could all of this fuss really be about a PBS show? Quite right. Masterpiece’s Emmy- and Golden Globe winning hit, Downton Abbey, created by Julian Fellowes, a TV ratings success and cultural phenomenon, has catapulted the public-television broadcaster with the stodgy reputation to the cool kids’ table.
We don t know how to handle that over here, said Mel Rogers, CEO and president of PBS SoCal, the PBS member station that serves greater Los Angeles. “We got accidentally popular.
Not since Ken Burns s The Civil War documentary, which aired in 1990, jimmychoooutlet has PBS been at the center of national cultural conversation as it is now. Masterpiece s Downton Abbey, which finishes its second season U.S. run on Sunday and will return in January 2013, has generated critical acclaim, audience enthusiasm, and impressive ratings, and garnered six Emmys and one Golden Globe, ending HBO s dominance over the movies and miniseries category. Downton is ranked No. 3 in terms of overall audiences in all Masterpiece presentations since 1990, second only to cheap christian louboutln shoes The Buccaneers and Prime Suspect 2.It brought in a staggering average audience of 6.3 million viewers for its second season premiere on Jan. 8 and was the second-watched program at 9 p.m. on Super Bowl Sunday a primetime coup for a period drama that airs on PBS, of all places.

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