'Downton Abbey Celebrates The Grand Finale' to Air on NBC & Peacock

Downton Abbey continues to close out its final feature film installment in style. As the arrival of the 1930s marks the end of the good times (or "good times" such as they were), the Granthams will finally take their leave of us once and for all in September 2025 with the third and last movie, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. However, before they leave, the film's cast has one last promotional tour to celebrate the film's release in theaters. Fittingly, that tour will include a specifically created one-hour special for the fans of the show in America who turned an odd little one-off series from ITV into a global phenomenon.

Called Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand Finale, the special will not air on your local PBS station. Although public broadcasting is where the series originated, since NBC Universal, whose parent company, Comcast, owns Downton Abbey production studio Carnival Films, launched its own (not very successful) streaming service, the series has slowly shifted from PBS Passport to Peacock, with Downton finally exiting PBS for good post-pandemic.

Along with the special, Peacock announced that all six seasons of the series will be available for subscribers to watch starting Monday, September 1, 2025. Both of the Downton Abbey feature films, Downton Abbey: The Movie and Downton Abbey: A New Era, will also be prominently featured for subscribers. (The third film is expected to debut on Peacock by the end of the year, which will put all of the franchise in one place for the first time.)