DR Jose, I am curious about the UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS sequel, but I doubt I'll watch it until it's on DVD. I'm in the middle of MILDRED PIERCE, and I cannot rrcommend it highly enough, I've missed the beginning of THE BORGIAS, which I can catch up with on Showtime on Demand, and there's this GAME OF THRONES, about which I know nothing, coming up.
I didn't see all of the original UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS - which I only caught occasionally in its initial PBS run - until around three years ago when I watched the entire series in one fell swoop that took me several weeks to accomplish. It was truly an amazing series.