Downton Abbey Season 5 is officially done. So what does that mean for Season 6?

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On Sunday, The Hollywood Reporter posted an interview with executive producer Gareth Neame who delivered some insight on what the next season will contain. Even though he wasn't too specific on storyline, he mentioned how audiences are going to be connecting to these characters.

"What I would like to do, by the time we get to the end of the show, whenever that may be, the audiences will look at Downton and will realize that they're connected to that world," Neame said. "By that, I mean, that Branson is your grandfather, or that Daisy is your grandmother- that we were all connected to those people."

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The producer then explained how the characters in the series are going through similar situations that people of this generation are dealing with.

"Most people are very close to us in our age, and very like us, so they're struggling to get used to using a telephone and a radio and all these kind of things," he said. "We're struggling with the little Apple product we get and we learn about. And they, like us, are totally living through a technological age. It's just that the technology they're struggling with, we take for granted."

Neame then addressed the possibility that Branson may be gone from the series for good.

"Well, you'll have to wait and see on that," the producer said. "But he's certainly left. So that remains to be seen."

Downton Abbey Season 6 is expected to air in the United States in early 2016 on PBS.

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