TVLine Items: Downton Abbey Catch-Up Session, Y&R Fave Returns, SVU Expanded And More!

If you've yet to see a second of Downton Abbey but would love nothing more than to jump on the Brit hit's bandwagon before Season 3 bows stateside in January, PBS has got you covered.

RELATED | Downton Abbey Renewed for Season 4

Press PLAY below to watch a five-minute video compiled of every itty-bitty thing you need to know about the breakout smash's first two seasons.

Ready for more of today's TV dish? Well...

• The Young and the Restless fan fave Marcy Rylan (Abby) is returning to the CBS soap on a recurring basis beginning in early 2013, per Soap Opera Digest.

• NBC has expanded Law & Order: SVU's current season, Deadline reports, ordering two additional episodes of the long-running procedural.

RELATED | Ratings: Scandal Hits Series Highs, Chicago Fires Up Its Largest Audience

• Everwood alum Treat Williams has been cast as Taylor Kinney's father in Chicago Fire, per TV Guide Magazine. He'll first appear in a January installment of the NBC drama.

• USA Network has given the green light to a sci-fi drama pilot from Walking Dead EP Gale Anne Hurd. Titled Horizon, the project takes place during World War II and centers on a FBI secretary who believes her husband was killed battling a spaceship.

• TLC has slotted William and Kate: A Royal Baby Story, a special airing Dec. 16 at 8/7c.

• MTV's new Hills-eqsue docu-series Washington Heights premieres Jan. 9.

Which TVLine Items have you talking today?