The time has arrived lords and ladies. "Downton Abbey" will return to American televisions this Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015, on PBS. The popular British costume drama will bring new stories and characters to American televisions nationwide as viewers join the Crawley family and their servants embark on another journey into the ever-changing 1920s.

The show's fifth season has been highly anticipated after all the drama of the previous season, and perhaps it may bring some closure to some members of the house -- or maybe not.

The show opens in 1924, and the Crawleys have new challenges ahead of them, according to the San Jose Mercury News. These include accommodating their strict social customs with a new world. Lady Rose wants a radio, and Lady Mary, now in the search of suitors, wonders whether women should sleep with their partners before marriage.

It is a different house from the one seen in the first couple of seasons. Downton's inhabitants, especially the aristocratic Crawleys, have a sense of what the real world is like. Though the family slowly begins breaking away from some of their traditions, the Dowager Countess, played fantastically by Maggie Smith, is always there to remind everyone, even if she faces some of her earlier social transgressions in the new season.

One of the characters that grows emotionally in Season 5, as well as in the audience's heart, is Lady Edith, played by Lauren Charmichael.

In an interview with the Toronto Star, Charmichael talked about what to expect from Lady Edith.

"I'm certainly always wanting more references to what she does," Charmichael said about Edith's journalism career. "In Season 5 we see more of her in London writing for the newspaper."

She then continued to talk about something more crucial to her character: her child.

"It's always a bummer to start this way. We know where she is, and it's not a happy place when we leave her at the end of the last season," Charmichael said. "The child she brought back from Switzerland, she has managed to find a home on the estate. It's not going to be without its problems. She cannot live with the fact that her child has been separated from her."

A lot more drama will be happening at the big house this season, which will include exiled Russian aristocracy, multiple love affairs, a murder investigation and another wedding.

Tune in to PBS on Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015, to see what happens in Season 5 of "Downton Abbey.

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