Earlier this year, "Downton Abbey" producers announced that the show's sixth season will be its last. The season is being filmed at the moment, and the cast and crew of the hit drama have reportedly finished filming some exterior shots for the series finale already.
According to Oxford Mail, following the completion of some scenes this week, some of the cast members, among them Hugh Bonneville (Robert) and Laura Carmichael (Edith), threw a party in Bampton to thank the town for all the years that they spent filming in the West Oxfordshire village.
With "Downton Abbey" officially about to end, there has been a lot of speculation as to what will happen during the finale. For the show's final season, the Daily Mail reports that fans should expect at least one wedding and one funeral — and the website claims that no fewer than five characters could be walking down the aisle when the show returns.
Rob James-Collier, who plays butler Thomas Barrow, told the Daily Mail that he can "probably guarantee a wedding, the odd funeral or two or nine."
Prior to the thank-you party, the site reports that emotional scenes were filmed at Bampton last week, but though the website refrained from spoiling season 6, they have asked the experts at Ladbrokes to give them odds on which weddings and funerals are most likely to happen.
The odds are at 5-1 of Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) marrying Henry Talbot, who charmed her with his charm, easy grace on the dance floor, and liking for fast cars; while the odds that she will marry Viscount Gillingham (Tom Cullen) is at 3-1. It can be recalled that Gillingham proposed once but was rejected by Mary, who was still grieving the death of her husband.
As to who will be laid to rest in the season finale, the odds that the Earl of Grantham (Hugh Bonneville) will be the one to be mourned is at 10-1, which are the same odds for the Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith).
No premiere date has been announced yet for season 6 of "Downton Abbey," although it has been speculated that the show will air on ITV in September and in January 2016 on PBS.
