![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, fellow cast member Elizabeth McGovern, who plays Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, expressed the view that it was time for the series to end. I was a mess! And all the crew, the blokes were all crying - it was a soggy mess!" he said. ![]() I started to say a few words on behalf of everybody and. "We were in the servants' hall, all the gang, candle lit, a muted scene and they said 'cut'. Jim Carter, who plays strict butler Mr Carson, told AFP about that charged moment when they wrapped up the final scene. The final instalment will follow the family towards the end of the 1920s, shortly before the onset of the Great Depression. In the past five years it has also become "one of the UK's biggest ever drama exports", according to Carnival Films and Britain's ITV channel, which commissioned the series. The series follows the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the early 20th century, and has averaged a weekly audience of 11 million viewers in Britain alone. The sixth and final series of the historical drama premieres on British TV screens on September 20, with fans marking the countdown on Twitter. Emotional "Downton Abbey" fans are counting down the days to the start of the last season of the hit British television series, as the period drama's cast told AFP about filming a tearful final scene. ![]()
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