Julian Fellowes Calls Bloys a Defender of ‘Gilded Age’ — SkimNews
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- Julian Fellowes thanked Casey Bloys at The Gilded Age’s Season 4 premiere at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, 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; Fellowes’s vision for the period piece then proved too ambitious for broadcast TV constraints, and Universal TV shopped the series.
- The Gilded Age landed at HBO in a competitive situation and finally premiered in 2022, with Season 4 debuting on Sunday, November 1.
- Pearena Igbokwe of NBCU was hailed as “one of the first to recognize” The Gilded Age’s specialness during Fellowes’s premiere presentation.
- Bob Greenblatt received credit for not letting The Gilded Age project rest and for making the series, two roles Fellowes singled out at the premiere.
- Francesca Orsi was called “wonderful” and credited with bringing The Gilded Age home to HBO.
- Julian Fellowes called the era depicted in The Gilded Age the beginning of modern America, linking it to America’s emergence as the “big, giant new power of the world” and its loud voice at the peace table in both world wars.
Why it matters: Casey Bloys gains specific public recognition for believing in and defending The Gilded Age from its earliest days. Season 4’s November 1 debut anchors that tribute in the show’s four-season run, while Pearlena Igbokwe, Bob Greenblatt and Francesca Orsi are named for their separate roles in getting the project made and bringing it home.
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