For a franchise as established and cherished as “Downton Abbey,” the suggestion of a new era presents a myriad of daunting challenges balancing an ensemble cast of fan favorites, integrating unfamiliar faces and evolving to modern demands.
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Set in 1928, the matriarch of the Crawley family – The Dowager, Countess of Grantham (Maggie Smith) – may be in failing health, but she has lost none of her bite. She stuns her son, Lord Robert Grantham (Hugh Bonneville), and other members of her extended family when she announces that she has inherited a…