It's hard to believe that we are almost at the end of the road for Downton Abbey, as sadly the hit show finishes its run after this upcoming sixth season.

The trailer for the final series debuted at the Edinburgh TV festival this week but it looks like we will have to wait until the weekend for it to be made public. However, ITV have gone one better than that and released an extended clip from the first episode

It features an argument between Maggie Smith's Dowager Countess and Isobel Crawley (Penelope Wilton) over whether or not the village hospital should be run by a local board or the Royal Yorkshire County Hospital.

The tension-filled two-minute scene will leave you itching for more, with eight new episodes arriving in the autumn plus a Christmas special in which the Crawley family will bid farewell after five years on screens.