[Timmy]

Downtown Abbey isn’t made by PBS. They simply show it in the US. It’s shameless that she lists it as a success.

[Hunton Peck]

Thanks for pointing that out! I had no idea (not having been a PBS viewer for a good decade or so).

[LostInBayport]

Downtown Abbey isn’t made by PBS. They simply show it in the US. It’s shameless that she lists it as a success.

Right...it is a British series that PBS airs. For those of us who don't watch broadcast TV, it can be purchased on DVD. PBS has the distribution rights, I'm guessing (their logo is on the DVD), so taking credit for its commercial success here is as you said, shameless and completely disingenuous. Kind of like PBS' "balance".