'Downton Abbey' Season 6 News, Update: Series Creator Julian Fellowes Offers Update on Upcoming Chapter
British period drama TV series "Downton Abbey" is now reportedly on its sixth-month shoot and will return to the U.K. airwaves this fall as well as premiere earlier 2016 for the North American channel PBS.
A report from The Hollywood Reporter said that "the end hasn't begun to really sink in yet" for series creator Julian Fellowes, who gave his address on a panel discussion at the Writers Guild Theater over the weekend.
Fellowes, who writes every episode of the scripted program admits that he "haven't even written it" yet despite the fact that production for Season 6 has already 11 more weeks left.
"We're coming into that final stretch really, and it being the last one hasn't really sunk in. I think it will really start having an impact when we film the last scene in the dining room or the last scene in the library or whatever, and we'll check that off the list," Fellowes said.
"It will be funny when the each character is finished, and they say, 'And that's the last of Mrs. Patmore or whatever,' " the writer explained. "That's always a strange moment – even on an ordinary movie or one-off job -- when people who have been all through it start to peel away."
As for what the upcoming season will offer, Fellowes and executive producer Gareth Neame revealed some details to the audience through a short video saying that "there will be more battles between Violet (Maggie Smith) and Isobel Crowley (Penelope Wilton)."
Fans would also the growing intimacy between Carson (Jim Carter) and Mrs. Hughes (Phyllis Logan) who both came into an agreement to marry in the previous season.
"Downton Abbey" was renewed for a Season 6 on March 2015 and was confirmed to be its final series.
