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Downton Abbey ends on a happy note in swansong episode

The hours are counting down to the series finale of Downton Abbey on this Christmas Day.

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Downton Abbey won the ratings war on Christmas Day as 6.6million viewers tuned in to watch the final episode of the period drama.


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“We’ve made friends for life, you know Laura [Carmichael] and I are not anxious about not seeing each other because we live very close by one another, we see each other all the time”, the actress explained.

Viewing figures for the Christmas Day episodes of ITV’s drama has fallen with each successive year since the first special was broadcast in 2011. It’s the series finale, a longer episode than usual, a chance to see whether or not these characters can have the happy ending that we want for them.

The actor, 52 – who plays benevolent Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham, in the hugely popular ITV series – told The Sun that the stars were frisked by production staff on the final day of filming…

For now, let us at least be pleased with the closure the 2015 Christmas Special provided; with happy endings all round for Lady Edith, Lady Mary, Anna, Bates, and the rest.

EastEnders, which was up against Downton at 8:45pm, pulled in 5.7 million viewers.

Elsewhere, the Christmas special of Strictly Come Dancing received 6.5 million viewers, whilst Mrs Brown’s Boys and Stick Man were broth watched by 6.4m.

Christmas telly proved a turn off this year as shows recorded some of the worst festive numbers ever.

The Dowager Countess, played by the scene-stealing Dame Maggie Smith, observes: “Every year we drink to the future, whatever it may bring”.

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There has been only one example in the past decade of a programme getting more than 15 million viewers on Christmas Day.

Downton Abbey scenes were filmed at Beamish Museum in July