Resurgent NBC–which, courtesy of football, The Voice, and sci-fi series Revolution, has reversed years of bad fortune in a single season–is looking to get into the Julian Fellowes business. The creator of PBS’s Downton Abbey is to write The Gilded Age, a soap opera of wealth and class in Edith Wharton-era New York (across the sea and slightly earlier than the Downton manor house, but presumably bringing similar themes into play). Read More
Though its hordes of U.S. fans are still waiting for the third season of Downton Abbey to begin airing on PBS, that season ended last night in the UK with 10.1 million viewers, according to Deadline, making it the show’s highest-rated season yet for Brit broadcaster ITV. Read More
Mira Nair’s Vanity Fair , from a screenplay by Mathew Faulk, Mark Skeet and Julian Fellowes, based on the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), contrives to become a less than absorbing adaptation of Thackeray’s sprawling but sharp-witted classic. Ms. Nair-she of the tumultuous India-based canvases of Salaam Bombay (1988) and Monsoon Wedding (2001)-has expanded Read More
