It's officially the end for Downton Abbey, but is there a chance it could come back in a few decades?

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On Wednesday, The Guardian shared an interview with producer Gareth Neame who made it clear that the sixth season of the British drama will indeed be its last- but that doesn't necessarily mean there could be a future for, perhaps, the characters' children or something.

"It definitely is the end of the television show...it suddenly occurred to me that in 30 years' time somebody could [bring it back]," Neame said. "There's nothing to stop a whole other generation of people when we've all been retired. It'll be whoever owns NBC Universal at that point could say: 'Well we own this property. We made it 40 years ago and let's set it on another planet or something.'"

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If there is any kind of future for the series in the far future, one thing is for sure- the people working on it right now won't be included.

"It's over, the television show will finish at the end of next season," Neame said. "I know everyone's now going to write down it could have a future lease of life. There are no plans to do that, but it's a weird thing that happens with some titles that are 40-years-old or so, but we won't be involved in it."

Downton Abbey Season 6 premieres in the United States on Sunday, January 3 on PBS.

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