‘Billions,’ ‘The Gilded Age,’ ‘Promised Land,’ ‘Resident Alien’: TV This Week

Christine Baranski in "The Gilded Age," the new series from "Downton Abbey" creator Julian Fellowes. (Photo: Alison Rosa/HBO)
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“Billions”: The entertaining series about rich people doing ruthless things finished Season 5 with a surprise, as original star Damian Lewis departed, taking the character of Bobby Axelrod with him. Fortunately, the talented Corey Stoll is on hand, and his moneybags entrepreneur character, Michael Prince, is taking over Axe Capital. (9 p.m. Sunday, Showtime; you can also stream on fubo TV, which offers a free trial)

“The Gilded Age”: A new period drama from “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes. Instead of taking place across the pond, the story here is set in New York City, when the Gilded Age of the title was minting new family fortunes, along with establishing old money empires. The cast includes Louisa Jacobson, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Carrie Coon and Morgan Spector. (9 p.m. Monday, HBO; stream on HBO Max)

Related: ‘The Gilded Age’ brings the ‘Downton Abbey’ touch to old New York (review)

“Promised Land”: A Latin family pursues wealth and power in this new drama set in California’s Sonoma Valley. John Ortiz stars as the head of the Sandoval family, which owns a vineyard. The cast includes Cecilia Suárez, Augusto Aguilera, Christina Ochoa, Mariel Molino and Bellamy Young. (10 p.m. Monday, ABC; stream on fubo TV, which offers a free trial)

“Resident Alien”: Alan Tudyk returns as the extra-terrestrial alien who’s posing as a human in a comedy-science fiction series inspired by a comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics. (9 p.m. Wednesday, SyFy; stream on fubo TV)

“Fast Foodies”: In Season 2, Kristen Kish, Justin Sutherland and Jeremy Ford once again prepare their versions of celebrity guests’ favorite fast food dishes. (10 p.m. Wednesday, TruTV)

Streaming

“Aziz Ansari: Nightclub Comedian”: A new standup comedy special featuring the actor-comedian, in a performance taped in December of last year. (Available to stream beginning Tuesday, Netflix)

Already streaming

“As We See It”: Jason Katims’ new comedy-drama, based on an Israeli original, follows the experiences of people on the autism spectrum as they go about working, dating and living their lives. The cast includes Rick Glassman, Albert Rutecki and Sue Ann Pien, actors who identify as living on the autism spectrum. (Amazon Prime Video)

“Ozark”: After a lengthy delay, the drama returns for a fourth and final season. We can only hope this installment lives up to the intense, heart-wrenching third season. Jason Bateman, Laura Linney and Julia Garner are among the three standouts who will be back. The final, 14-episode season will arrive in two parts, so this is the first batch of seven episodes. (Available to stream beginning Friday, Netflix)

“Servant”: M. Night Shyamalan’s psychological thriller series returns for its third season. (Available to stream beginning Friday, Apple TV +)

-- Kristi Turnquist

kturnquist@oregonian.com 503-221-8227 @Kristiturnquist

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