Promo for Downton Abbey, Season 2, premiering on PBS on January 8th, 2012

PBS video: Promo for Downton Abbey, Season 2, premiering on PBS on January 8th

http://youtu.be/qYKmcolMqZ4

Digital Spy video: 'Downton Abbey': The stars chat about Season Two http://youtu.be/XVnZRfrEfpM

ITV's promo for Season Two looked like this

ITV promo for Downton Abbey, Season Two

http://youtu.be/yoe3CoxcYm0

My last two blog posts filled with interesting videos and links about the wonderful Downton Abbey were both on September 19th, 2011, titled Quality writing & acting wins again!

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/quality-writing-acting-wins-again.html and

Brilliant! Mary-Jess - Did I Make The Most of Loving You? ("Downton Abbey" theme); Mary-Jess Leaverland

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/brilliant-mary-jess-did-i-make-most-of.html

Reminder: In the U.S., the first year of Downton Abbey re-airs on PBS beginning Sunday, December 18th at 9:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific.

Season 2 of Downton Abbey premieres on PBS on Sunday January 8th, the second day of the NFL Wild Card Weekend, but the second game will be over by the time 9 p.m. rolls around.

Watch Downton Abbey: Surviving the Wait for Season Two on PBS. See more from Masterpiece.

PBS Masterpiece video: Downton Abbey: Surviving the Wait for Season Two. Masterpiece's Rebecca Eaton on how to survive until Downton Abbey season two premieres. http://video.pbs.org/video/2156589433

The new CD containing the soundtrack of Season 2 of Downton Abbey produced by John Lunn is at Amazon.co.uk., and this website has a selection of the 19 songs.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005EW4MS0/ref=nosim/

If you're in the U.S., I urge you to buy it via Amazoncom UK as an Import, even at $28.68 plus shipping, since according to Amazon's U.S. website, it won't officially be available in the U.S. until December 31st, which is pretty weird given how many people might wish to get it for the holidays. Not so smart marketing there!

http://www.amazon.com/Downton-Abbey-Various-Artists/dp/B005EW4MS0/ref=sr_1_1

And use the Amazon Currency Converter to prevent your bank from screwing you with additional fees.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=200224510

Decca Music video: Theme to "Downton Abbey" (Mary-Jess). September 2011. http://youtu.be/uCa-Bxl1s1c

When I first mentioned this video on September 19th, it had received 1,727 views, and now it's up to 13,367.

Mary-Jess - Did I Make The Most of Loving You? ("Downton Abbey" theme) 2011.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0AbTiBYrbg&feature=colike

Yes, English singer Mary-Jess Leaverland is one very talented 21-year old!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downton_Abbey

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/downtonabbey/

http://www.mary-jess.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary-Jess_Leaverland

Brilliant! Mary-Jess - Did I Make The Most of Loving You? ("Downton Abbey" theme); Mary-Jess Leaverland

Mary-Jess - Did I Make The Most of Loving You? ("Downton Abbey" theme) 2011.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0AbTiBYrbg&feature=colike

Owing to the fact that my last post here had so many Downton Abbey-related videos, and my desire to make sure that this performance by English singer Mary-Jess got the amount of attention it deserved, I'm repeating some of the relevant parts of it so that it's on its own and you can hear this amazing talent, whose personal and professional back-story is pretty damn amazing, if largely unknown outside of England and... China.

Especially for a 21-year old!

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Thanks to my observant friends, loyal confidantes and trend-spotting spies around the world, I got tipped-off to this video and can tell you that TODAY, Sept. 19th, is the first day that you can pre-order the new CD containing the soundtrack of Season 2 of Downton Abbey produced by John Lunn via Amazon.co.uk.

In the U.S., you can also now pre-order it thru the American office of Amazon.com but it comes as an Import and runs $28.68 plus shipping.

The CD will be released September 27th, 2011.

See the British link above to see and hear the selection of songs.

If you can, please click the YouTube link at the bottom of each of these videos and watch it there instead of on the blog, so that you can also see the other songs Mary-Jess has done in the right-hand column.

Plus, we can send those viewing numbers up!

Right now, as of 6:23 p.m. Eastern U.S., the total number of views for the first video is 1,727.

Decca Music video: Theme to "Downton Abbey" (Mary-Jess). September 2011. http://youtu.be/uCa-Bxl1s1c

(In my opinion, in this still-shot of the video above, Mary-Jess looks a bit like delightful actress Shiri Appleby, whom we last saw in a guest-starring role last month on USA Network's "Royal Pains," which I always watch.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downton_Abbey

http://www.mary-jess.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary-Jess_Leaverland

Reminder: In the U.S., the first year of Downton Abbey re-airs on PBS beginning Sunday, December 18th at 9:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific.

The second season of Downton Abbey starts on PBS on Sunday January 8th!