With the Stars and Stripes unfurled on a short staff at the left side of his desk and the Union Jack on a similar staff at the right, handsome and inimitable old H. Gordon Selfridge Sr. steers ...

The British commercial broadcaster, which is also the home of “Downton Abbey,” has already pre-sold the shopping mogul series to various markets. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor A group of ...

With season four of "Downton Abbey" still in the works, PBS needed something to keep its historical ratings up. It did so with a historical drama about the charismatic businessman behind the London ...

American Harry Gordon Selfridge revolutionized the way Londoners shopped with a retail model that made shopping a luxurious adventure. It was Selfridge who coined the phrase "the customer is always ...

ITV has commissioned 10 new episodes of the British show, which airs on PBS in the U.S. beside "Downton Abbey." By Stuart Kemp Jeremy Piven Mr. Selfridge - H 2012 LONDON – The Jeremy Piven-starrer Mr.

In 1909 its managers promised that shopping there would be "a pleasure - a pastime - a recreation". A century on, customers are still flooding into Selfridges. And at 9am this Sunday, the Oxford ...

It was a day just like any other in the early 1900s, when the pretty and soft-spoken Agnes Towler arrived at the stuffy London department store where she worked as a salesgirl. As she tended to her ...

In 1890, one Harry Gordon Selfridge, Wisconsin born, became a member of Marshall Field & Co. in Chicago. Fourteen years later, after he had shown himself a great department store executive, had become ...

Andrew Lloyd Webber's got nothing on Harry Gordon Selfridge. Selfridge was the American who shook up the world of retail — and London's social starchiness — in 1909, with the founding of the great ...

ITV is planning an adaptation of Lindy Woodhead's period novel Shopping, Seduction & Mr Selfridge. Andrew Davies is currently working on the script for ITV1 and the drama is in the early development ...