It's official: Downton Abbey to return with 6th season in 2015

ITV has confirmed that their period drama series 'Downton Abbey' is coming back for a sixth season in 2015.

Steve November, ITV's director of drama commissioning, said that it was fantastic that their series continued to be such a phenomenon and still the most popular drama on ITV in its fifth series and they were thrilled to have commissioned a sixth series, the BBC reported.

The drama, which focuses of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants, will go into production in 2015.The fifth series of 'Downton Abbey' ends on 9th November, 2014.