According to TVLine, with the third season of The Gilded Age nearing its final episode and the third Downton Abbey movie hitting theaters next month, it’s a wonder how the two Julian Fellowes (Belgravia, Godsford Park)-created franchises haven’t collided. Fellowes spoke to TVLine on whether or not the two would crossover, which has been a question by many since the first season of The Gilded Age, *Spoiler ahead* especially now that Gladys, played by Taissa Farmiga (The Nun, American Horror Story), has married into British nobility, the time feels more appropriate than ever. 

“Well, obviously there’s an opportunity to stage a crossover, because they are both in England,” Fellowes tells via TVLine. “Things like the shooting season or whatever would incorporate many great houses for all of these families, as they would travel around England. We can bring about a conjunction whenever we wish, really, but we haven’t got one planned yet, so we’ll have to see.”

As per TVLine, this is a more encouraging answer than executive producer Gareth Neame (The Last Kingdom, The Day of the Jackal) gave during the first season of The Gilded Age.

“A crossover is not in the thinking at all,” Neame says via TVLine. “It’s a separate universe, but they’re both fictions set in the 1880s. Downton Abbey, in its own fiction, was definitely there. A younger version of the Maggie Smith character would be living there, I guess. But it’s not really planned.”

According to TVLine, The Gilded Age is a historical drama that follows the clash between old money and new money during a period of rapid industrial and social change. Cast of the series includes Carrie Coon (Gone Girl, Avengers: Infinity War), Morgan Spector (Boardwalk Empire, The Plot Against America), Louisa Jacobson (Materialist, Gone Hollywood), Denee Benton (Dreams in Nightmares, Tender Thoughts), Harry Richardson (Total Control, I’ve Been Thinking About What You Look Like) and many others.