For example, throughout this third season of the PBS's "Downton Abbey, " my husband and I were constantly cranking up the volume or rewinding the recorded show to catch the dowager countess's zingers.

WSJ: Review of Sonos Playbar: Raising the Bar for Better TV Sound

Producers of the show have described Martha as "a wonderful combatant for Maggie Smith's Dowager Countess".

BBC: Shirley MacLaine: Hollywood 'ignores older viewers'

The current building, which is believed still to have sections from Queen Anne's time, is used as the home of the Dowager Countess Grantham, played by Dame Maggie Smith in ITV's Downton.

BBC: 'Downton' house could unlock secrets of Surrey history

Meanwhile, as the countess plots her next move, FXB's work goes on.

FORBES: Companies, People, Ideas

The story's climax turns out to be anticlimactic, a predictable contrivance that pits the countess, for the last time, against Chertkov, who wants to manage Tolstoy's death as he managed his life.

WSJ: The Last Station and The Book of Eli | Review by Joe Morgenstern

Detailed examination has also compared the similarity between the dress worn by Susannah in the reworked version and that on Charlotte Walpole, Countess of Dysart, credited to Reynolds, which hangs at the National Trust's Ham House near Richmond.

BBC: Thomas Gainsborough portrait 're-worked by rival'

And then the second point is what is, we now have is a situation where to put it bluntly the Countess unwisely in her discussions with us clearly shows herself to be trading off her Royal connections, so she's, you know she's mixing up her Royal persona with the harsh commercial world.

BBC: News Online