'Downton Abbey': See Photos From the Final Season

Let the Count Downton begin! The sixth and final season of Downton Abbey is a mere five months away for U.S. viewers, and with the cast having wrapped production — see their emotional photos from the set here — there’s nothing left to do but wait for the episodes to arrive…. and scour the Internet for clues about what awaits us, of course. Fortunately Masterpiece on PBS has aided us in that mission today by dropping 8 brand-new photos of the final season. "As our time with the Crawleys begins to draw to a close, we see what will finally become of them all," says PBS in their press release for the new season. "The family and the servants, who work for them, remain inseparably interlinked as they face new challenges and begin forging different paths in a rapidly changing world." Now if you'll excuse us, we'll be clicking through these images while singing " The Way We Were" and crying softly to ourselves.

The final season of Downton Abbey premieres on Jan. 3 at 9 p.m. on Masterpiece on PBS.