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Waiting for the third Downton Abbey film and the third season of The golden ageyou may be wondering if the two titles exist in the same universe.

In a new interview, an executive producer of The golden agewho also worked on Downton Abbeyquestioned whether or not there is a connection between the two shows.

The HBO series is set in the late 1800s, at the start of the American Gilded Age, three decades before the events of Downton Abbey. Both TV shows also come from the same creator, Julien Fellowesand feature tons of drama upstairs and downstairs.

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“(A crossover is) not envisaged at all” Gareth Néame said TV line. “It’s a separate universe, but they are two fictions that take place in the 1880s. Downton Abbeyin his own fiction, was indeed there. A younger version of Maggie Smith the character would live there, I suppose. But that’s not really planned.

He went on to joke that since crossovers and reboots are so big these days, it “will only take about ten years for HBO or Universal to say, ‘Great, let’s do a Golden encounter Downton mashup! ” But Gareth added that he is “not currently on the list.”

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