ITV confirms 4th season of Downton Abbey
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In an undated handout picture released by TMC – NBC Universal on Dec 8, 2011 British actress Maggie Smith plays her role as Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, in a scene of the hit British television series Downton Abbey. The fourth season of popular period-drama series Downton Abbey, that centers on the Crawley family and their servants in the years leading up to the start of World War I, has been confirmed. -- PHOTO: AFP
LONDON (AP) - British television channel ITV has confirmed that hit drama Downton Abbey will return for a fourth season.
Filming of eight new episodes for the award-winning period series will begin in southern England's Highclere Castle and London's Ealing Studios early next year.
ITV said on Friday that as before, the opening and closing episodes will be feature-length, and that the series will continue the story of the Crawley family and their servants in the 1920s.
The channel said that an extended special episode for next Christmas is also planned.
