Me--waving both hands. :)

I didn't watch until the 4th season (I think), but once I found it, I did a marathon of all the previous seasons, just to catch up. Thanks for the heads up!

Me too - now that you've reminded me. Thanks!!

Oh.....I didn't expect it to return until January. Thanks for letting us know. So sad though....the beginning of the end...being the final season.

Joaniepoanie, it doesn’t return on US tv stations until January 2016, but I watch it via my Tunnel Bear access on ITV - on my computer. A GW member instructed me how to set it up last year, so I could access each new episode as they were aired in the United Kingdom on the British schedule, which starts this coming Sunday. I watch it on my computer in the fall, and then again on the big tv when PBS broadcasts in January 2016.

I read an interview with the butler..kind of sad they are ending with the ruin of the Abbey...Now someone needs to get busy writing prequels..I want them to back up and start when Robert was a teen....maybe even when the Dowager first courted..bet she put Mary to shame!!

'ending with the ruin of the Abbey' - oh no! please no spoilers - I won't be able to watch until it is shown here in the US in January.

I think it was kswl who posted the instructions for the ITV hookup - but I couldn't get it to work.

Here's the link to that thread:

http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2405328/downton-abbey-season-5?n=40

Totally ready!!

No spoilers - let me reinforce that idea! I didn't know anything about the ending - until now that is, oops.

What ending?

kswl - karin and I were referring to arcy's post where she stated "I read an interview with the butler..kind of sad they are ending with the ruin of the Abbey"

Yes, a prequel back to the Dowager's courting days.

Yes to everything. Especially back to the Dowager! THAT would be educational in more ways than one!

Ok, I'm going to stop reading this. I am already unhappy. We donated to our local PBS station and got a dvd set for all six seasons. We may start watching 1-5 until 6 comes out. But I really don't want it to end.

If you have watched the previous seasons and follow the economic issues Downton Abbey has been dealing with there is no "Spoiler" in my comment.

My dd and I have been counting down for Dr Who on Saturday and Downton Abbey on Sunday.

Hey, no spoilers!!!

Maire cate, if you couldn’t get the ITV hookup to work, could it be because you didn’t put in the right postal code? I joined Tunnel Bear again because I’d canceled my membership when season 5 was over. Then, after confirming my registration with ITV, when I tried to watch a Downton trailer it searched and said that it "wasn’t available in my location”, and showed a box asking me to submit my postal code. I remembered that it had to be a British postal code, not US zip code, and I entered “SW74QH” - and it worked! I was then able to watch any of the GB broadcasts. Have you tried that?

It's already been made clear they are adding cottages and not hiring as many footmen.

4Heidesign - I honestly don't remember what the problem was last year but it might be time to try again. I'll check the instructions and make another attempt. Thanks.

Has anyone else had difficulty with ITV and the first episode of season 6 of Downton? I can’t get past the first Amazon Prime commercial, it keeps skipping and playing endless commercials and will go no further. Any ideas?

I could not stream this this evening----so disappointing! It kept hanging up and buffering and repeating the same two of three lines, regardless of where I slid the button in the play length. (I know it isn't a single file of video but I thought there might be a hiccup or something at one point in the stream..,,,it wasn't one point, it was all through the file.)

Wireless connections seemed worse tonight so I plugged in with an Ethernet cable (haven't done that in a long while) which made full advantage of our fiber optic business service speeds....still no decent stream. I changed computers, went from room to room on wireless, plugged in, etc.

i believe it was a widespread problem today.

I just tried it again this morning, and it all streamed beautifully, with no problems! I’ve had my DA fix, and am so glad to know that there’s more to come. Great first episode!

I'm waiting until January, so PLEASE no spoilers. I try to zip past all references to DA. Sorry. I saw the comment about the ruin of DA.

Lol, ded, I think I would probably avoid opening these threads until you've seen the shows. Not planning to spoil anything, but there are some of us who are watching it now. Maybe we should start a thread called Downton Abbey Watching September 2015 ?

This thread made me think I'm in a parallel universe. My cable channel says that the final season of Downton airs in January of 2016. What am I missing here?

OK. Found out. Meanwhile @kswl2 - Do you use a Brit postal code? Something from a business or does a US code work?

My postal code is the Millennial hotel in Mayfair

Even though you register for ITV you still need a VPN service to get the content. I've used mine for many years, best $8 per month i spend!

@kswl2 - With the VPN, do you just access BBC or are there other things it accesses?

No you can access everything----any internet sites, any television channels online, etc.. Also, your regular services like Netflix and Amazon prime will have completely different offerings when you are "traveling." You first sign out of the netflix app or service, sign into the VPN, and then sign back into to Netflix or whatever.

When you sign into. VPN all that does is reroute your internet signal into a server in a different country, so it looks digitally or electronically that you are in that country instead of the U.S. I think Tunnel Bear has twelve or so "profiles" you can choose from, that cloak your American IP address with one from Canada, Japan, Denmark, Germany, Australia, etc. If you speak another language it would be easy to watch shows or visit sites through search results normally only available to persons in a particular country or region.