Getting ready for the grand gala that the 2025 TV schedule calls The Gilded Age Season 3 has been fairly a pleasure. However should you’re co-writer/creator Julian Fellowes, that enjoyable comes at a value; particularly with the ultimate Downton Abbey film heading our approach in the identical yr. And since questions persist surrounding the potential crossover of each excessive society epics, Fellowes really highlighted a larger impediment that I’m stunned we hadn’t known as out sooner.
Whereas chatting with TV Insider, The Gilded Age mastermind addressed the constant thread that speculates Elizabeth McGovern’s Cora Crawley (nee Levinson) is the important thing to a pre-Downton crossover episode. As all the time, Julian Fellowes took nice pains to reply this query, particularly since he’s now thrown this potential stumbling block into the equation:
The being on completely different networks places an issue within the path of that, so we’ll simply have to attend and see.
Simply when it looks like we have cracked the “who” on this case of TV crossover, the “how” has now proven up uninvited, threatening to drink all of the champagne. The house base for The Gilded Age is certainly an issue, as HBO Max subscription holders are those who get to look at the adventures of the Van Rhijn household, in addition to their buddies, enemies, and relations. As for the journey of Downton Abbey, they initially aired on ITV and PBS, and at the moment are a part of the Peacock streaming household.
So, sadly, hope for a clean crossover has been dashed as a result of tasks being housed at completely different firms.
That being stated, there is one obscure truth that would doubtlessly bridge the hole between these Julian Fellowes creations. Seeing as The Gilded Age started life at NBC, Common Tv remains to be a credited social gathering on the completed present that went to HBO. Seeing as Common additionally owns Peacock, there’s an opportunity the corporate’s remaining stake may clear the hurdles of forms.
Very similar to younger Cora Levinson’s household being current in 1890’s New York, familial connections maintain the door open for an occasion many are hoping will happen. Between plot considerations and enterprise connections, there ought to at the least be talks to really feel out if The Gilded Age’s hypothetical meet-up is a mutually useful prospect.
Contemplating Downton Abbey followers shall be looking forward to information on potential expansions, it’d be a disgrace to go up a dialogue within the drawing room. For now, although, the worlds of Julian Fellowes are firmly divided, each able to return earlier than our very eyes.
This Sunday at 9 PM ET will mark The Gilded Age’s Season 3 premiere on HBO and HBO Max, whereas Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale will hit theaters on September twelfth. So, whereas our hopes of a crossover could be dwindling, at the least we will see new tales from each properties very quickly.
