Downton Abbey Series 6: What Do We Know So Far?

Radio Times gives a recap on what we know so far going into Season 6 for Downton. Remember this is only a theory based on rumors…

Downton Abbey series 6: what do we know so far?

Branson and Lady Rose are living in America, love is in the air (again) for Lady Mary and Mrs Patmore is getting a fridge, when the hit ITV period drama returns to our screens later this year

By Ellie Walker-Arnott |

It might not be on TV at the moment, but Downton Abbey is dominating headlines anyway, with visits from real-life royalty and rumours that the sixth series might be the last.

There are still over six months until we’ll get to watch more of the hit period drama in the UK, and longer before it reaches American shores, but that hasn’t stopped us asking questions, digging around and, well, in some cases, pestering the cast to find out more about what we can expect from the new season.

Here’s what we know so far…


It could be the last

Rumours have long been circulating that series six will be our final visit to the Crawleys’ country abode, but they’ve stepped up a gear recently. There are whisperings about the cast looking for work, plus the fact that the show’s writer and creator Julian Fellowes is making a pilot for his new NBC period drama The Gilded Age this year, something he’d vowed he wouldn’t do until Downton Abbey was done…

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