• Entertainment Weekly, Monday, February 18, 2013 11:37 AM

SPOILER ALERT: For those still reeling from the plot twist in last night's season finale of  "Downton Abbey" (we, like many U.S. viewers, were spoiled in advance, but were still heartbroken): Executive Producer Gareth Neame discusses how the way U.K. TV productions cast and pay actors led to that development (which we won't spell out, though the linked-to article does.). Neame also discusses season 4 and such issues as whether  Mr. Carson and Mrs. Hughes will ever fall in love. (Probably not, since "[T]hey sort of are in a marriage," says Neame. "Aren’t they? A sort of non-sexual, non-romantic marriage. I think that’s rather a nice quality in the whole thing.")

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