He has created one of the most successful costume dramas in television history.
And as the nation prepares for the third series of Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes, the show’s award-winning creator, reveals he is now planning a fourth series of the ITV hit.
Lord Fellowes, 63, spoke out as he scoffed at reports that Dame Maggie Smith would be leaving the show.
The new series of Downton Abbey will premiere in September.
And speaking at the Royal Academy of Arts on Monday night, the writer told the Mail: ‘’I am sure there will be a forth series, yes although it hasn’t yet been confirmed officially.
‘But it’s a definite yes in my heart and I would be writing it and I have a pretty good idea of what I would do with it too.’
The blockbuster costume drama, which is set in the fictional stately home of Downton Abbey, features some of the cream of British acting talent including a star turn by actress Dame Maggie Smith as the Dowager Countess of Grantham.
He said: ‘Dame Maggie will be in this show for as long as she wants to be and I can tell you that even if she doesn’t want to be, she won’t die, she’ll go to the seaside just in case she wants to come back.
The third series will also feature the acting talents of veteran Hollywood actress Shirley Maclaine who will star as Lady Grantham’s American mother Martha Levinson.
Her character will appear in two episodes where she will clash with the Dowager Countess of Grantham played by Maggie Smith.
And adding weight to the notion of a fourth series, Lord Fellowes who won an Oscar for writing the screenplay for Gosford Park in 2002, said that Miss Maclaine’s character is likely to return, adding: ‘I think she’ll be back actually because she really enjoyed it.
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