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"The producers of Downton Abbey &amp;quot;still don&amp;#039;t know&amp;quot; when the show will finish. Exec producer Gareth Neame told Vulture that he and show creator Julian Fellowes will &amp;quot;have to judge&amp;quot; when the time is right for Downton to end.  &amp;quot;We don&amp;#039;t want to jump out of it too early,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;We are working on a great big hit show, and one doesn&amp;#039;t want to stop working on a great big hit show until you&amp;#039;re ready. &amp;quot;We have to get out right before people realise they want us to get out. We [want to] quit while we&amp;#039;re ahead, while people still love the show, and while we&amp;#039;ve still got stories to tell.&amp;quot; Watch Hugh Bonneville talk the future of Downton Abbey with Digital Spy below:  Julian Fellowes has been developing a second period drama titled The Gilded Age with US network NBC since 2012, but Neame insisted that the new show will not spell the end for Downton. &amp;quot;NBC of course would like to have Gilded Age but everyone accepts that Downton is still a massive success,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;We make 11 episodes of Downton every year and Julian writes all of it. It&amp;#039;s a huge amount of writing for one person to do. There&amp;#039;s no way he can do that and work on another show at the same time.&amp;quot; Downton Abbey will return to ITV for a fifth series this autumn, with Richard E Grant and Anna Chancellor joining the cast. Downton Abbey producer: &amp;#039;No plans to end after series 5&amp;#039; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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