Downton Abbey famously ran for six seasons between 2010 and 2015 (although it should have stopped at three), with Downton Abbey: The Motion Picture released in 2019. If the series proper concluded in 1925, the first movie takes place two years later, in 1927, and revolves around the Crawleys and their staff foiling an assassination plot mounted against King George V. The second film, which premiered in 2022, had a meta twist to it, centering on the shooting of a “moving picture” at the Abbey (with a sojourn to the South of France thrown in for good measure).

Then, last year, Focus Features confirmed that production on the third and final film, titled Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale , was underway, with Paul Giamatti reprising his role as Cora’s England-averse American brother, Harold

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