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Downton Abbey scenes for Christmas Day episode shot at County Durham Museum

The final episode of the hit ITV drama was trending on Twitter worldwide on Christmas Day with the final scene, which saw the cast singing Auld Lang Syne as they celebrated New Year’s Eve, an emotional farewell to the show.

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But as much as we truly appreciated this awesome end, and wonderful is the only word we could use to describe it, the question on every Downton Abbey fan’s mind this morning is “why did it have to end?”


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“If I’d have said “We haven’t got Maggie” it would have been a shadow of itself”, he said. Not everyone gets the happy endings, but ultimately we are a positive show. I hope that will make people want to watch the show.

The ultimate episode of Downton Abbey’s six-season run well outperformed the competition last night on what was an overall slow Christmas night for UK TV viewing.

However, the real ratings victor was the Queen, whose 3pm broadcast had the biggest overall figures for the day, drawing 6.1 million on the BBC and 1.1 million on ITV, excluding +1 and catch-up services.

Michelle Dockery had a tear in her eye when she read the final page of the last ever “Downton Abbey” script.

In the past two years, BBC comedy Mrs. Brown’s Boys was the top-rated show on Christmas Day in the overnight ratings.

We’ve been on lots of red carpets together and to the Met Ball a couple of times, which was wonderful and surreal because all these really famous people, like Mick Jagger, Bruno Mars, Marc Jacobs and P Diddy, were coming up and talking to us.

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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 Christmas 2015