10.7m viewers in the UK watched Downton Abbey's second season finale Sunday night on ITV1, representing a 40% share of viewing – the drama’s highest ever overnight audience and up +1.0 million viewers on the final episode of the first series.
It is the most popular drama series on UK television for over 10 years.
Downton Abbey series 1 and 2 are available to purchase on DVD and Blu-Ray.
Downton Abbey is a major new period drama series, written and created by Oscar-winning writer Julian Fellowes for ITV.
Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey will portray the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them.
In the drawing rooms, library and beautiful bedrooms of Downton Abbey, lives the family. Below stairs are the other residents, the servants, as fiercely jealous of their ranks as anyone above stairs. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others are moving through, on the look out for betterment or love or just plain adventure. The difference being they know the family’s secrets, while the family know so few of theirs.
STARRING: Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Brown Findlay, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle, Michelle Dockery, Siobhan Finneran, Joanne Froggatt, Thomas Howes, Rob James-Collier, Rose Leslie, Phyllis Logan, Elizabeth McGovern, Sophie McShera, Lesley Nicol, Maggie Smith, Dan Stevens, Penelope Wilton
