Julian Fellowes, the creator of Brit hit and Stateside phenomenon "Downton Abbey," is bringing his next series to NBC.
"The Gilded Age" will examine those who made their fortunes in late 19th century New York.
Said Fellowes: "This was a vivid time, with dizzying, brilliant ascents and calamitous falls, of record-breaking ostentation and savage rivalry; a time when money was king."
Fellowes will continue his work on "Downton Abbey," which will make its third season debut in January on PBS and has been renewed for a fourth, while simultaneously exec producing "The Gilded Age."
Show will be produced by Universal Television.
Source: Variety
"The Gilded Age" will examine those who made their fortunes in late 19th century New York.
Said Fellowes: "This was a vivid time, with dizzying, brilliant ascents and calamitous falls, of record-breaking ostentation and savage rivalry; a time when money was king."
Fellowes will continue his work on "Downton Abbey," which will make its third season debut in January on PBS and has been renewed for a fourth, while simultaneously exec producing "The Gilded Age."
Show will be produced by Universal Television.
Source: Variety
This is the kind off show that would do better on cable with a shorter season and a bigger budget. I hope NBC can pull it off because its definitely the kind of thing I would watch.
ReplyDeleteDidn't ABC have a pilot that ended up not being greenlit by Shonda Rhimes last year about the gilded age as well? It was called "The Gilded Lilys".
ReplyDeleteI wonder if these guys can write a full season...they had 3 years to write 25 episodes of Downton Abbey. :) Sorry, I hate short seasons and the BBC is the worst.
ReplyDeleteThere is a lot of material for a series based on the industrial moguls (or facsimiles) like Carnegie, Morgan, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt. It could make for some great TV.
ReplyDeleteI hope NBC keeps the series a short season and keeps to a very serialized format without having filler episodes. It would be nice to see network TV start to make more short 10-16 episode seasons. Shows simply do not need more episodes. Most shows with the more traditional American 20+ episode season only use 14-16 episodes to tell the story anyway... the rest are one-off episodes and filler that can be eliminated without affecting the story. Correction, it will affect the story to lose those episodes, it will make the story tighter and more streamlined, better.
I think it was a period soap opera about a posh hotel or something?
ReplyDeletePeriod dramas just don't have a good track record on network tv lately. Pan Am, Playboy Club, Vegas... But we shall see
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