HBO has released the first look at “The Gilded Age,” a new series from “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes that was shot in Upstate New York.
Written by Fellowes and Sonja Warfield, the show will focus on the American Gilded Age, a period of immense economic change, of great conflict between the old ways and brand new systems, and of huge fortunes made and lost. The nine-episode drama, set in the year 1882, was partially filmed in Troy, N.Y., around the city’s historic Washington Park.
Louisa Jacobson stars as young Marian Brook, who moves from rural Pennsylvania to New York City after the death of her father to live with her old money aunts (Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon. Marian, joined by aspiring writer Peggy Scott (Denée Benton), gets tangled up in a social war between one of her aunts and her stupendously rich neighbors, a ruthless railroad tycoon (Morgan Spector) and his ambitious wife (Carrie Coon).
“Exposed to a world on the brink of the modern age, will Marian follow the established rules of society, or forge her own path?” the logline asks.
A teaser trailer and three official photos were released Thursday.
“The Gilded Age” was first announced in 2015 as an NBC project, but the TV show later moved to HBO. Some earlier reports inaccurately referred to it as a “Downton Abbey” prequel; Fellowes has said that it’s not tied in with the award-winning series set in Britain in the 1910s.
“The Gilded Age,” also starring Taissa Farmiga, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Audra McDonald, Blake Ritson, Simon Jones, Harry Richardson, Thomas Cocquerel and Jack Gilpin, will premiere Monday, Jan. 24 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO.
Episodes will also be available to stream on HBO Max.
The series is directed by Michael Engler and Salli Richardson-Whitfield, and executive produced by Fellowes, Warfield, Engler, Richardson-Whitfield, Gareth Naeme and David Crockett.