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"Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has refused to apologise for the emotional ending to the show&amp;#039;s 2012 Christmas special, insisting that the series should always make people laugh and cry in equal measure. The dramatic exit for Dan Stevens&amp;#039;s character Matthew Crawley in a car crash won&amp;#039;t be the end to the tears in the period drama according to Fellowes, who teased future heartache on the show.  &amp;quot;The trick of Downton is that it&amp;#039;s quite funny, but it makes you cry,&amp;quot; said Fellowes.  &amp;quot;You have to keep that in mind always - it mustn&amp;#039;t be so funny that it ceases to be real because then it won&amp;#039;t make you cry.  &amp;quot;But you mustn&amp;#039;t cry so much that you can&amp;#039;t then enjoy a scene in the kitchen with Mrs Patmore.&amp;quot; Fellowes suggested that the relationship between Anna Bates (Joanne Froggatt) and John Bates (Brendan Coyle) would be tested and emotionally fraught in series four. He also promised some dramatic changes in the background of the show, revealing that &amp;quot;the world in which Downton begun&amp;quot; has fully ended. &amp;quot;The fourth [series] is more about getting into the &amp;#039;20s: what young people wanted, the changes in music, the arrival of the movies, cars, transport and all of that stuff. But also the difficulties of the big estates, with so many of them packing up,&amp;quot; said the writer.  &amp;quot;And of course that was quite a worry for the authorities, where was it going to come from? Were they going to be farmed in the same way? All of that establishes the colour of the fourth series.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; &amp;#039;Downton Abbey&amp;#039;: Meet the dashing new male characters - First Pictures &amp;gt; Absolutely everything we know about &amp;#039;Downton Abbey&amp;#039; series 4 Downton Abbey series four launches on Sunday, September 22 at 9pm on ITV. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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