'Downton Abbey Christmas Special' Review - Shirley MacLaine, Paul Giamatti Come Calling

It's 1923 at 'Downton Abbey', and Rose is to be 'outed', in the London 1920s fashion - the opportunity for Julian Fellowes to pick up his pen with a particularly jovial flourish, and put together all the usual suspects, together with some royalty, a conniving schemer and - most disturbingly of all - Americans. The Americans come calling.. and cause ripples for the Downton regulars That these New World interlopers came in the high-pedigree form of Shirley MacLaine and Paul Giamatti only added to ...