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'Downton Abbey' Season 6 Release Date: Movie Coming?

Fans of the hit British period drama TV series "Downton Abbey" can now mark their calendars and make a countdown as PBS boss Paula Kerger recently announced the highly anticipated premiere outing of the show's sixth season.

The reported finale season of the critically-acclaimed drama will start airing on Jan. 3, 2016. This was confirmed by Kerger during Television Critics' Association Summer press tour in Beverly Hills, California on Saturday.

For those who missed it, Season 6 will find the wedding about to happen for Mr. Carson (Jim Carter) and Mrs. Hughes (Phyllis Logan). They exchanged a rather delightful conversation as what has been shown in a recently-released teaser. Hughes asked Carson if it's already the right time for him to call her "Elsie," the gentleman only blustered and exclaimed: "Not here! Not at work!"

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Back in Downton Abbey, there's the usual bickering between Lady Violet (Maggie Smith) and Isobel (Penelope Wilson) and this time, it's about the problems at the hospital.

"So you want to protect your power at the expense of the patients, and I want to protect the patients at the expense of my power," Isobel said.

"And let the best man win," Violet replied.

As for the future of the show, executive producer Gareth Neame talked to Variety about the possibility of a spinoff series.

"I can't guarantee it's even going to happen. Julian [Fellowes] and I would be very happy to do it if that opportunity comes along. Now that we're at the beginning of the end of the TV show, we can start to think about it," Neame said.

Fellowes meanwhile pointed out, during the occasion, the rumors of a Downton Abbey movie.

"If we had gone to a season 7 or 8 we would have taken it that much further," the writer-producer clarified. "There's speculation about whether we'll ever make a Downton movie, we might, but there are no firm plans. But it means there's a lot of rich [remaining] territory."

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