Downton Abbey is a British period drama television series created by Julian Fellowes and co-produced by Carnival Films and Masterpiece.It first aired on ITV in the United Kingdom on 26 September 2010 and on PBS in the United States on 9January 2011.The series is set in the fictional Downton Abbey,a Yorkshire country house,the seat of the Earl and Countess of Grantham,and follows the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants during the reign of King George V.The first series spans the two years before the Great War beginning with news of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912,which set the story in motion.The second series covers the years 1916 to 1919,and the 2011 Christmas Special covers the 1919 Christmas period,ending in early 1920.The third series picks up soon thereafter,covering 1920 through the autumn of 1921.
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