It is Downton but not quite as we know it.
This year the Crawley family and a few of their best loved servants are leaving Downton Abbey behind and heading to Scotland for a break.
The ITV1 show is expected to be one of the most popular on Christmas Day with an estimated audience of 10 million.
Only the BBC’s seasonal edition of Call the Midwife, which airs immediately before it at 7.30pm on the same day, is expected to beat it in the ratings. In the two hour ITV1 special, Lord and Lady Grantham and their family visit their Scottish cousins at Duneagle Castle, accompanied by servants John Bates, his wife Anna, and O’Brien.
This is the home of Lady Rose, played by newcomer Lily James, who was sent home in the last episode of series three after her dalliance with a married man.
Insiders said viewers would see tensions build up between the two tribes and there is even the suggestion of a new romance for Lady Edith.
And in a bid to fully embrace life in the Highlands viewers will see the men of the family deer-stalking, fly-fishing and out on shooting trips.
The special was filmed at Inveraray Castle on Loch Fyne in Argyll – the area is already hugely popular with tourists because of the idyllic landscape but is expected to enjoy a boom once the program airs.
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