Season 6 of Downton Abbey Photos: Is That a Smile We See on Edith?

Dowager Countess of Grantham (Maggie Smith) laughs at your weekend. Photo: Carnival Film & Television Ltd

Downton Abbey returns to British TV for its sixth and final season in September, but Americans with no concept of the internet will have to wait until 2016 to watch it on PBS. That said, photos are much more fluid, so here are our first looks at various cast members in the sixth season, without a water bottle in sight.

Lady Edith Crawley (Laura Carmichael), Cora Crawley (Elizabeth McGovern), and Lady Mary Crawley (Michelle Dockery):

Mrs. Hughes (Phyllis Logan) and Mrs. Patmore (Lesley Nicol):

Robert, the Earl of Grantham (Hugh Bonneville):

Isobel Crawley (Penelope Wilton):

Anna Bates (Joanne Froggatt) and John Bates (Brendan Coyle):

Mr. Carson (Jim Carter) and Mrs. Hughes (Phyllis Logan):

Thomas Barrow (Robert James-Collier), Andy Parker (Michael Fox), and Joseph Molesley (Kevin Doyle):

Group shot!