ITV’s popular period piece Downton Abbey will be returning for a fifth series after the show debuts its fourth season in the US this coming January.

The show, which is featured on PBS’s ‘Masterpiece Theater’, follows the story of the Crawley family, an elite, aristocratic family and their servants in 1910 to 1920s England. It stars Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, and Jim Carter among others.

ITV announced on Sunday that the show will be returning for a fifth series following the show’s success. The program broke records earlier this year when more than 24 million people tuned in, and the finale was the most watched show on American television on the night it aired.

Julian Fellowes, who has written all of the show’s series so far, will return to write the fifth series.

"We promise all the usual highs and lows, romance, drama and comedy," Gareth Neame, director of Downton Abbey creator Carnival Films said of the new series, reports the BBC.

ITV’s Director of Drama Commissioning, Steve November also said that the fifth series will be “as warm, witty, romantic and dramatic as previous series and we can't wait to catch up with our favourite characters again.”

It was also recently announced that Downton Abbey’s Christmas Special, which will show in England on Christmas Day, will feature Paul Giamatti as matriarch Cora Crawley’s brother Harold, reports the Washington Post. The Christmas Special will be two hours long.

Series five of Downton Abbey is expected to air sometime in the coming year.

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