DOWNTON ABBEY Producer on the Show’s End and a Potential Movie
August 2, 2015 by Marisa Roffman
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DOWNTON ABBEY is getting ready to say goodbye.
The ITV/PBS series will launch its final season on January 3, 2016 — just two days after the show is honored with a float at the Rose Parade.
And though fans may be lamenting the upcoming end of the series, the show has lasted longer than anyone planned.
“Well, I have to say it was actually rather than it been curtailed, it was extended,” DOWNTON ABBEY star Hugh Bonneville shared during the show’s Television Critics Association panel. “We were all expecting to finish after [season] 5. And it was [creator] Julian [Fellowes] who said to us that he felt…it would be a bit truncated trying to bring it into land over in that fifth series, and so he asked if we’d he wanted to do another nine episodes to make the stories all land in a more appropriate way.”
