Well, that's one way to top a George Clooney appearance (opens in new tab).
Downton Abbey's annual, highly anticipated Christmas sketch is almost here, and this year's episode raises the stakes with some good, old-fashioned murder—and a TV-show crossover with Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope trailing a killer to the estate's Santa auditions.
The video is part of the Text Santa (opens in new tab) initiative, a UK charity telethon that raised more than $10 million to benefit charities in 2014, and like its predecessors, includes loads of (yet-to-be-seen) celebrity cameos and humor that often pokes fun at the show's, ahem, weaknesses.
Watch the preview below, and stay tuned for the full episode. P.S. If only the *real* Christmas special could end like this (opens in new tab), eh? 😞
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