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Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has signed on to write and produce another period drama, this time for NBC. Fellowes’ The Gilded Age, which has a script commitment with significant penalty attached, is described as a sweeping epic in the style of Downton Abbey. It depicts the world of the millionaire titans of 1880s New York, chronicling the lives of the princes of the American Renaissance and the vast fortunes they made — and spent. “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 said.
This marks the first NBC project for Oscar and Emmy winner Fellowes, who is already in the NBCUniversal family — the Emmy-winning Downton Abbey is produced by NBCU-owned Carnival Films. Fellowes will continue as writer/executive producer on ITV hit Downton Abbey, which was just renewed for a fourth season, while working on The Gilded Age, produced by Universal TV. He is repped by UTA, Independent Talent and attorney George Davis.
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Isn’t that a show called Copper already?
No. Copper is about a police detective in 1860′s New York. Two shows set in 19th century New York don’t have to be the same show.
Anyway, ABC did a pilot for a show in the spring called Gilded Lilys that was set in 1895 Boston. ABC ultimately passed on it. I hope The Gilded Age, as an NBC project, has better luck.
If it’s on network TV, I’m sure it’ll be great!!!
Great dude, wrong network. The only “sweeping” you’ll find on NBC are the vacuumn cleaner commercials.
Interesting. I’d love to see a real period drama on broadcast. Don’t know how well it would do, but Downton Abbey really found a mainstream audience which is cool and promising. Smart for NBCU to keep Julian Fellowes in the family though.
Downton Abbey gets under 6 million viewers on PBS, which is okay for PBS since they don’t need to pay for the production, but is that survival level ratings on broadcast? Costume dramas are a niche, and this concept is better off on cable.
NBC should wait and see how their pirate show does, which has the benefit of being violent and adventurous.
Copper is an even smaller niche audience, under 2M.
What about Fellowes’ screenplay for GYPSY (the new Silver/Streisand production)? Any news or update on that project?
@saffron
‘Downton’ averages close to 10+ Million Viewersin the U.K.
Many Americans don’t watch PBS as much as they do NBC.
I think it could work. If ordered to pilot and then to a series, the show could air after The Voice – just how Downton airs after the UK version of X-Factor.
I wish him luck,although the odds anything airing on Nbc will do well are-let me put it this way-YIKES!!!!!
Gilded Lilys set the bar high. Hopefully Julian can out period piece the yanks at their own game. Too bad Lilys never saw the light of day. Downton who?
Forget the Gilded Age of the 1880′s… Fellowes should be writing about the bankster families of today. How about THE ROTHSCHILDS -The Original Trillionaires!
Wasn’t Fellowes connected to a project about the Vanderbilts for either Showtime or HBO?
Shonda must be pissed.
“Beacon Hill” reboot?
Try reading what Beacon Hill was about, then try reading the article above and what this new show would be about. Two completely different things, outside of being set “in the past” — a broad similarity that makes Downton Abbey just like, oh, Spartacus.