Downton Abbeyreturns Sunday night, with the premiere of its sixth and final season.

We join season 6 with many, many things still up in the air.

Romance, family, finance, and more are ahead.

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(For more on where the show left off, read our season five-finale recaphere.)

These storylines, and others, will play out in all sorts of ways.

Other characters wont necessarily.

The camera will just sort of move away from them.

He adds, In any event, there are 11 screen hours ofDowntondrama left to wrap them all up.

In those remaining hours, Neame wanted to bring the series together as a whole.

I wanted it to feel complete, he explains.

Most of the things dramatically that occur to them are things that happen in our own lives.

Its almost within living memory, Neame concludes.

Its not quite so far away.