There is no end in sight to the upstairs-downstairs drama of “Downton Abbey.”
Britain’s ITV network says it has commissioned a sixth season of the popular costume drama from co-producers Carnival Films and Masterpiece. It will start filming early next year.
ITV’s director of drama commissioning, Steve November, said Thursday that the show continues to be “a phenomenon.”
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He said the network doesn’t know yet what series writer Julian Fellowes has planned for his much-loved characters.
The Emmy Award-winning show follows the fates of the aristocratic Crawley clan and their servants amid the social upheavals of the 1910s and 1920s.
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The fifth series of “Downton Abbey” is currently airing in Britain and starts Jan. 4 on PBS in the United States.
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