‘Downton’ producer doesn’t shut door on post-series film

Hugh Bonneville, a cast member in the PBS television series "Downton Abbey," poses for a portrait during the 2015 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) Hugh Bonneville, a cast member in the PBS television series "Downton Abbey," poses for a portrait during the 2015 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

By Associated Press August 1, 2015 1 min read

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) – With “Downton Abbey” coming to an end, its executive producer is offering hope that a follow-up movie is at least a possibility.

By ending the TV drama several years shy of the 1929 stock market crash, producer Gareth Neame says rich territory is left to be mined if a film is made.

He told TV critics Saturday that it’s been discussed, but there’s no script or a firm plan. He didn’t specify if it might be a TV or big-screen project.

Neame says a “Downtown Abbey” movie could be a “wonderful thing.”

The series about the upstairs and downstairs occupants of a stately English home will end production Aug. 15.