Bonneville hopes Downton Abbey will 'stand the test of time'

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Hugh Bonneville, who played the Earl of Grantham Robert Crawley in the ITV series Downton Abbey says, "it is time to say goodbye" to the period drama and that he hopes it will "stand the test of time". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00We actually said goodbye several times over the last decade, not least at the end of the TV show

00:04when we all thought that was it, you know, and here we are three films later. I think it's our audience

00:11who actually have let us know quite vocally that a lot of them aren't ready for it to finish, but

00:16it is time to say goodbye. You know, the box sets will always be there, the memories will still be

00:21there, and I think really what audiences have enjoyed so much over the years is the experience

00:25of watching it as a family so often, or with friends. There's been such a sense of a water cooler.

00:31One of those few shows these days that has been a water cooler show, bringing people together

00:35to chat about it, to bond over it. The number of messages we get from families saying, I

00:39used to watch it with my gran, or, you know, my daughter has now gone and got married, and

00:44I watch it as a comfort memory of times when we were together. That's a lovely quality that

00:49the show, I think, had, and that will never go away. So I feel we've created something

00:55for the ages. I hope it will stand the test of time.

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