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As was made thumpingly obvious in its super-sized premiere, how much you enjoy Downton Abbey's third season is, more than ever for this series, predicated on just how much of an Anglophile you are.Like millions of other American fans, I spent yesterday evening glued to PBS and the Season 3 premiere of the worldwide hit series Downton Abbey, chronicling the lives of aristocrats and servants on a fabulous British estate in the early 20th centuryThe delay did not hurt Downton Abbey. The British import, which already concluded its third season in its native U.K., surged 96 percent over its previous season premiere when it returned to PBS on Sunday night.It's been nearly a year since Downton Abbey last flickered across American tellies, and a lot has happened offscreen—the ever-rising fame of its stars, their very high-profile contract disputes, Carson in Spandex and as a dog,

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