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Julian Fellowes<\/strong> recently disclosed why he has decided to end the Downton Abbey<\/strong> franchise with its latest entry, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale<\/strong>. Fellowes is the creator of the original Downton Abbey series, which aired on ITV in the UK from 2010 to 2015. The show\u2019s success led to the development of three movie sequels: the first feature of the same name as the series (2019), Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022), and The Grand Finale.<\/p>\n Fellowes revealed during a new interview with Entertainment Weekly<\/a> that he decided that Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale would be the last project in the franchise because he wasn\u2019t interested in exploring stories involving Nazi Germany and World War II. \u201cI didn\u2019t really want to get into the Nazis and Germany and the lead up to the Second World War. I wanted to leave at a time when that had not yet become apparent as a threat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n This meant that The Grand Finale had to bring down the curtains on the storylines of the main characters of the franchise. Fellowes and his team were able to do that with Maggie Smith\u2019s Violet Crawley in Downton Abbey: A New Era. In 2024, Smith passed away at age 89. \u201cI just felt that we had said goodbye to Maggie, but we haven\u2019t quite said goodbye to everyone else,\u201d Fellowes said in the interview.<\/p>\n The Grand Finale is set in 1930, which, according to Fellowes, is the start of the \u201cmodern age\u201d and a world that might seem unfamiliar to the Downton Abbey characters. The screenwriter stated that he wanted to give fans a satisfying ending with The Grand Finale and show how the characters would navigate the new world. \u201cIt\u2019s no longer going to be a world of white tie and footmen; that was on its way out,\u201d he elaborated. \u201cSo, we needed to be sure that they would be okay,\u201d Fellowes further stated.<\/p>\n Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale premieres in theaters today.<\/p>\n Originally reported by Tamal Kundu on ComingSoon<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Downton Abbey Creator Explains Ending the Franchise With The Grand Finale<\/a> appeared first on Mandatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Julian Fellowes recently disclosed why he has decided to end the Downton Abbey franchise with its latest entry, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. Fellowes is the creator of the original Downton Abbey series, which aired on ITV in the UK from 2010 to 2015. The show\u2019s success led to the development of three movie sequels: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2016242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[369743,334473,356232],"class_list":["post-2016241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-downton-abbey-franchise","tag-julian-fellowes","tag-the-grand-finale"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Downton-Abbey-Creator-Explains-Ending-the-Franchise-With-The-Grand.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Julian Fellowes is ending Downton Abbey because of World War 2 and Nazi Germany<\/h2>\n