Thank you ITV for creating such an awesome series and providing us with this preview of the next season!!
(September 18, 2011 in the UK, January 8, 2012 in USA)Downton Abbey will resume 2 years from where we left off: It will take place from 1916 to 1918 and the 2-hour Christmas special will be New Year’s Eve 1919. "Julian Fellowes is already storylining scripts for a third series, which will take Downton Abbey into the devil-may-care, swinging 1920s."


Here are some images of the Crawley family and the other beloved characters from
Downton Abbey as they live through the reality of English life during World War I.
More links for season 2 (including cast interviews, other news in press)

New cast membersAmy Nuttall (housemaid Edith)
Zoe Boyle (Lavinia Swire, Matthew's love interest)
Iain Glen (Sir Richard Carlisle, ruthless newspaper owner, suitor for Mary)



C
al Macaninch (Andrew Lang, valet)
Maria Doyle Kennedy (Vera Bates, wife of John)

And here are some familiar faces!


















