Julian Fellowes’ The Gilded Age Moves from NBC to HBO

The Gilded Age, from Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Julian Fellowes, has landed a series order at HBO.

The award-winning Downton Abbey team of Fellowes, Gareth Neame and Michael Engler has reunited for this new ten-episode drama. The series is set in the American Gilded Age in 1885, a period of immense economic change, huge fortunes made and lost, and the rise of disparity between old money and new money.

The Gilded Age is a co-production between HBO and Universal Television.

Casey Bloys, HBO’s president of programming, said: “Given the opulent scope and scale of this richly textured character drama, HBO is the perfect home for The Gilded Age. We’re all huge fans of Julian and I know I speak for Bob Greenblatt, who was involved in the development of this series while at Universal Television, when I say we’re thrilled to bring his undeniable genius to our viewers.”

Fellowes added: “I feel very privileged to be making The Gilded Age with HBO and Universal Television. It has been a dream of mine for some time, as I am fascinated by this brutal and intensely glamorous period of America’s history. It will be about ambition, of course, and envy and hatred and, perhaps most of all, about love. I hope people will enjoy the series. I know I will enjoy making it.”

Neame commented: “I’m thrilled that HBO and Universal Television will be bringing The Gilded Age to life. This is a compelling part of the American story and has remarkable parallels with the world we live in as these people set many of the wheels in motion that drive us today.”