The Gilded Age: New series gives New York the Downton Abbey treatment
The Gilded Age: Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon.
Julian Fellowes, by his own admission, is a man haunted by “witty, elderly women”. Having conjured Downton Abbey’s Lady Violet Crawley and Gosford Park’s Constance, Countess of Trentham from the innermost recesses of his mind, it’s very much a torment of his own making.
“I suppose that comes from having been brought up by a sort of phalanx of great aunts who always had something to say on every subject,” announces Fellowes, 72, with a nod of recognition.
