Hiyoo!

Looks like Downton Abbey is correcting the ship for it's third series (sorry, "Season Three" to you hicks), according to none other than Lady Cora herself:

"What's made the show successful and different is that attention to character detail and that's what the audience likes. ... Writers [in the second season] had to do a lot of glossing over the domestic life, and some of the small moments between characters that characterized the first season."

Speaking to promote her Tribeca Film Festival costume drama "Cheerful Weather for the Wedding" (more on that shortly), McGovern said  that "Downton Abbey's" third season will return to the character-oriented roots, as the series picks up after the Great War in 1920.