'Downton Abbey' to return for 5th series; Paul Giamatti to join Christmas special
LONDON - Fans of 'Downton Abbey,' rejoice! There will be another season yet of period romance and upstairs-downstairs drama at the country estate.
ITV announced Sunday that it has commissioned a fifth season of the popular television show, a costume drama about a British aristocratic family and their servants in the 1910s and 1920s. As before, the new series will be written by Julian Fellowes.
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ITV said the fourth season's holiday special, shown in Britain on Christmas Day, will feature Paul Giamatti, who joins the cast as Cora's playboy brother, Harold, and Shirley MacLaine, who will reprise her role as Cora's mother Martha Levinson.
The show, which debuted in 2010, has won millions of fans in Britain, the U.S. and beyond.
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