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Lady Mary copes with grief, suitors in ‘Downton Abbey’ Lady Mary will be mired in grief as season four of “Downton Abbey” begins, mourning the loss of her husband, Matthew. But a string of suitors awaits when she’s ready to live again, said Michelle Dockery, who plays Mary in the hit drama that will return to PBS’ “Masterpiece” in January. “She has more than one love interest,” Dockery said. “She’s kind of slowly throughout the series coming back to real life, and, of course, it’s important for her to eventually move on.” All of those men are, she noted with satisfaction, handsome. “That was stipulated by you,” said executive producer Gareth Neame. He and several cast members including Dockery and Laura Carmichael, who plays Mary’s sister, Edith, attended a Television Critics Association news conference Tuesday evening to promote the show. Mary’s husband, played by Dan Stevens, was killed in a car crash just after welcoming the couple’s newborn son, George, in last season’s finale. The fourth season of “Downton Abbey,” which follows the lives of the family and servants living in an English stately house, will include newcomers Paul Giamatti as an American relation and opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa. The drama series, which started in 1912 and has been moving the calendar forward, is up to the early 1920s and reflects the world’s increasing modernity. A fifth season is planned, Neame said, who suggested there could be more to come. “The show is so popular around the world, it’s beloved and it’s in fine form,” he said. But he said he couldn’t envision following the characters as far as World War II.

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A judge has scheduled an emergency custody hearing requested by Usher’s ex-wife after one of the pair’s sons got stuck in a pool drain at the singer’s Atlanta home. A lawyer for Tameka Foster Raymond filed the request Tuesday in Fulton County Superior Court and Judge John J. Goger approved it the same day, scheduling a hearing for Friday. The court filing says the boy “suffered a near-death accident” while left unsupervised in a pool at the Grammy winner’s home Monday. Atlanta police have said 5-year-old Usher Raymond V fell to the bottom of the pool and became stuck in the drain Monday. A housekeeper tried unsuccessfully to free him. A contractor doing work at the home pulled the boy from the pool and performed CPR.

Discovery hammered for shark special

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viewers and starkly raised the question about the worth of big ratings. The program, “Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives,” opened Discovery’s annual “Shark Week” during the weekend. With an estimated 4.8 million viewers, it had the largest audience of any show in the 26 years that Discovery has made “Shark Week” a part of its summer programming, the Nielsen company said. Yet it drew a heated response online from viewers who said airing a “mockumentary” compromises the network’s reputation. Discovery’s “Shark Week” Web page and Facebook and Twitter sites filled after the show with complaints from fans who objected to the program, saying they were surprised a science-based network seriously discussed the existence of a fearsome creature when there is no evidence it exists today. The “Megalodon” special was reminiscent of two shows on sister network Animal Planet about

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