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Downton Abbey could last for six series,

31 Jul 2011

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Downton Abbey's executive producer has suggested that the period drama could run for as many as six series.

Gareth Neame revealed the information while discussing the eight-part second run of the ITV programme, which will premiere this September and conclude with a Christmas special.

Source & more: Digital Spy
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13 comments:

  1. Alexa Jones31 July 2011 at 19:00

    meh! Why?

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  2. BarnabusStinson31 July 2011 at 19:14

    Show looks interesting.  I might check it out on Blu-Ray.

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  3. Lunaticbabe31 July 2011 at 20:01

    Okay, and....? Any specific reason it should be six? And they mean season, right? Not series. I mean it's not the NFL.

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  4. SerieFreak31 July 2011 at 20:31

    In UK seasons are labeled series, so yes it basically means six seasons :) 

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  5. Lunaticbabe31 July 2011 at 20:57

    Okay. I couldn't recall that from when I lived in the UK, but I'll take your word for it. Would have been a REALLY long show otherwise. :P

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  6. darq31 July 2011 at 22:08

    It was one of the best new series last year, and I expect this series to be brilliant too.. That said, Unless Mr. Neame has a 6-season plan for Downton Abbey, I would just prefer they do it one season at a time and concentrate on the story and given the great actors material to shine.

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  7. Julia Albuquerque31 July 2011 at 23:14

    I think it would only make sense to say it if he had a plan for beginning to end...

    Or so I hope.

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  8. paulohmygod31 July 2011 at 23:36

    I'm not liking the fact so many shows are saying "oh i think we're going to have [so many] seasons..." currently. just take it one season at a time and stop jumping the gun! 

    The Torchwood article I read on here a few days ago had it right with "Well, we might do another season, if there's a good enough idea..."

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  9. darq1 August 2011 at 00:46

    Oh I am all for showrunners or the creative team forming a 5-year or 6-year plan and saying that the show should last that long... or that is what they have worked out. Like Fringe, Supernatural, Lost, Carnivale and others... they had a plan from the beginning and I love that!

    I just didn't take the showrunner's statement that way I guess. I felt he meant something along the lines of "Well, there's no outline or plan, but I think we could make it last for 6 seasons if we wanted to".

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  10. cokeyloveswayne1 August 2011 at 01:37

    It doesn't bother me if  they think it could go six seasons i wish it could  im really looking forward to season 2

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  11. Myos419 December 2011 at 22:13

    Wow, I thought they'd said it was planned for 3?
    If it's 6, I'm concerned at the pace at which they're going: all 4 years of the war in one series, for example! That was too much actually.
    I hope they slow down and only cover a couple years per series: obviously we'll have the 1919-1922 Irish Civil War (with Lady Sybil in Dublin) and the 1924 take-over by Labour - if Aunt Violet is horrified by the Liberals, what will she think of a Labour government? the 1920-1922 period would be enough for one series, and 1923-1925 for one more, with perhaps one series for the general strike of 1926 and its aftermath. That's series 3, 4, 5 (and I can see them collapsing 1923-1926 into one series). There'd be the Roaring Twenties, women getting the vote, new fashions, new jobs and old ones getting phased out... 
    Pushing further down the timeline would make the characters too old, wouldn't it? I can't see the actresses playing 35 or 40 year olds. And we'd lose Aunt Violet, as I can't imagine her living to 100 and being lucid, in these days.
    Since Sybil had her season in 1914, it means she was 16, and we know Mary had had 4 seasons, hence, 20 in 1914. It means that in 1919 Sybil is 21 and Mary's 25- basically an old maid; Edith being in-between, 22 to 24, also old to get married - although the War changed everything, with so many young men who'd died. With my timeline, they'd be: Sybil 28, Edith 30ish and Mary 32 - young by today's standards but at the time 30 was considered "old" enough to make a woman "mature" and "wise"/wise-ish (hence voting rights for women 30 and older). 
    If they plan on going for 6 series, which I wish, :), I hope they'll slow down the timeline, or do a series with flashbacks to the war years.

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  12. Myos419 December 2011 at 22:15

    Considering Downton Abbey broke all audience records and practically saved ITV from ruin*, I think they can keep going, and going, and going...until they're all tired of it :)

    * Ok, I'm exagerating a bit :))

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  13. paulohmygod20 December 2011 at 21:42

    to be honest, i don't really know much of the show. i'm from england and i didn't even remember it was on itv. haha. 

    and, even though i don't watch it, i do believe most shows that dp seasons  that are what i consider to be short, have more staying power.  
    and i guess what some people will call jumping the gun others will just call having faith in the show and the people he works with. 

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