Fellowes Praises Casey Bloys at Gilded Age Premiere — SkimNews
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- Julian Fellowes thanked Casey Bloys at The Gilded Age’s Season 4 premiere at New York City’s Plaza Hotel, calling him “our protector, our gladiator, our defender from very, very early days” and saying viewers owed him a great deal.
- NBC ordered The Gilded Age, but Fellowes said his vision proved too ambitious for broadcast television’s constraints; Universal TV then shopped the series, which landed at HBO in a competitive situation.
- The Gilded Age finally premiered in 2022, while Season 4 was set to debut on Sunday, November 1.
- Pearlena Igbokwe was “one of the first to recognize” the series’ specialness; Fellowes also credited Bob Greenblatt with not letting it rest and making the series, and HBO’s Francesca Orsi with bringing it home.
- Julian Fellowes called the Gilded Age “a very interesting period of American history” and “the beginning of modern America,” arguing that the United States decided not to copy Europe.
- Julian Fellowes said that within a few years the century would begin what became known as the American century, and that America’s arrival as a “big, giant new power” gave it the loudest voice at the peace table in both world wars.
Why it matters: Casey Bloys receives the loudest praise, but Fellowes also credits Pearlena Igbokwe, Bob Greenblatt and Francesca Orsi for recognizing, making and bringing home a project that outgrew broadcast TV’s constraints. The November 1 Season 4 debut is the end result of that multi-step path from NBC to HBO.
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