GILDED AGE LAVISH 19TH CENTURY SET COSTUME SERIES GETS A STUNNING NEW TRAILER AND CHARACTER POSTERS AHEAD OF SEASON 3 JUNE LAUNCH

   GILDED AGE SERIES  

SEE SEASON THREE TRAILER AND POSTERS

After announcing a slate of actors who have joined the third season of HBO's popular costume drama GILDED AGE back in August, we now have a full trailer and gorgeous posters for the 19th century lavish high society of New York set drama. The third season arrives June 22nd with eight new

Bertha and George are back this summer

 hour long episodes!

 

THE STORY OF SEASON 3

Following the Opera War, the old guard is weakened and the Russells stand poised to take their place at the head of society. Bertha sets her sights ona prize that would elevate the family to unimaginable heights while George risks everything on a gambit that could revolutionize the railroad industry — ifit doesn’t ruin him first. Across the street, the Brook household is thrown into chaos as Agnes refuses to accept Ada’s new position as lady of the house. Peggy  meets a handsome doctor from Newport whose family is less

Fortunes have changed for the two sisters

 than enthusiastic about her career. As all of New York hastens toward the future, their ambition may come at the cost of what they truly hold dear.

 

 THE CAST OF SEASON 3

 Bobby Steggert will appear as the famed artist John Singer Sargent, who has just begun his career painting the great ladies of society, while Hannah Shealy is Charlotte Astor, the married daughter of Mrs. Astor (Donna Murphy), recently returned from an eventful trip abroad. Dylan Baker plays Dr. Logan, a family doctor who treats a number of high society families, with Kate Baldwin as Nancy Adams Bell, the older sister of 

The series returns June 22nd at Max

John Adams (Claybourne Elder), Michael Cumpsty as Lord Mildmay, a British nobleman who comes to dine at Sidmouth Castle, and John Ellison Conlee as the successful, educated and polished businessman, Weston! Paul Alexander Nolan has joined as Alfred Merrick, a dashing, wealthy New Yorkbusinessman, who has all the hallmarks of the old money set – elegance, refinement and sophistication. The Russells invite him to dine at their home in the hopes of charming him into a business deal. Carrie Coon, MorganSpector, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Harry Richardson, and Blake Ritson will also be joined by Bill Camp, Merritt Wever, Leslie Uggams, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Hattie Morahan, Andrea Martin and Jessica Frances Dukes in the new season which arrives this summer.

 

GILDED AGE LAVISH 19TH CENTURY SET COSTUME SERIES GETS THIRD SEASON TEASER AND A JUNE STREAMING DATE!

   GILDED AGE SERIES  

FIRST SEASON THREE TEASER IS HERE

After announcing a slate of actors who have joined the third season of HBO's popular costume drama GILDED AGE back in August, we now have first teaser and the return date for the 19th century lavish high society of New York set drama. The third season arrives June 22nd with eight new episodes!

THE STORY OF SEASON 3

Following the Opera War, the old guard is weakened and the Russells stand poised to take their place at the head of society. Bertha sets her sights on a prize that would elevate the family to unimaginable heights while George risks everything on a gambit that could revolutionize the railroad industry — if it doesn’t ruin him first. Across the street, the Brook household is thrown into chaos as Agnes refuses to accept Ada’s new position as lady of the house. Peggy meets a handsome doctor from Newport whose family is less than enthusiastic about her career. As all of New York hastens toward the future, their ambition may come at the cost of what they truly hold dear.

 

 THE CAST OF SEASON 3

 Bobby Steggert will appear as the famed artist John Singer Sargent, who has just begun his career painting the great ladies of society, while Hannah Shealy is Charlotte Astor, the married daughter of Mrs. Astor (Donna Murphy), recently returned from an eventful trip abroad. Dylan Baker plays Dr. Logan, a family doctor who treats a number of high society families, with Kate Baldwin as Nancy Adams Bell, the older sister of John Adams (Claybourne Elder), Michael Cumpsty as Lord Mildmay, a British nobleman who comes to dine at Sidmouth Castle, and John Ellison Conlee as the successful, educated and polished businessman, Weston! Paul Alexander Nolan has joined as Alfred Merrick, a dashing, wealthy New York businessman, who has all the hallmarks of the old money set – elegance, refinement and sophistication. The Russells invite him to dine at their home in the hopes of charming him into a business deal. Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Harry Richardson, and Blake Ritson will also be joined by Bill Camp, Merritt Wever, Leslie Uggams, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Hattie Morahan, Andrea Martin and Jessica Frances Dukes in the new season which arrives this summer.

 

SEE MURRAY BARTLETT, MARK STRONG, HENRY GOLDING, NICOLE KIDMAN, CHRISTINE BARANSKI IN NINE PERFECT STRANGERS TV SERIES SEASON 2 TRAILER

 NINE PERFECT STRANGERS 

SEASON TWO TRAILER IS HERE

Well, I thought the first season was mind numbingly boring but NINE PERFECT STRANGERS got a second season which arrives to Hulu May 21st after

Second season arrives to Hulu May 21st

more than a three year break. It will open with two episodes and then continue weekly. Henry Golding, Murray Bartlett, Christine Baranski, Annie Murphy, Dolly De Leon, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, King Princess, Aras Aydin, Lucas Englander, Mark Strong, and Lena Olin play nine new strangers connecting in ways they could never imagine who are invited by Masha (Nicole Kidman) to join in a transformational wellness retreat in the Austrian Alps. Over the course of a week, she takes them to the brink. Will they make it? Will she? Masha is willing to try anything in the interest of healing all those involved.

GILDED AGE TO RETURN WITH THE THIRD SEASON THIS JUNE! SEE LAVISH FIRST IMAGES AND AIRING DATE PLUS THE NEW CAST

   GILDED AGE SERIES  

FIRST SEASON THREE IMAGES

After announcing a slate of actors who have joined the third season of HBO's popular costume drama GILDED AGE back in August, we now have first images and the return date for the 19th century lavish high society of New York set drama. The third season should arrive this June with eight new episodes!

 

THE STORY OF SEASON 3

Following the Opera War, the old guard is weakened and the Russells stand poised to take their place at the head of society. Bertha sets her sights on a prize that would elevate the family to unimaginable heights while George risks everything on a gambit that could revolutionize the railroad industry — if it doesn’t ruin him first. Across the street, the Brook household is thrown into chaos as Agnes refuses to accept Ada’s new position as lady of the house. Peggy meets a handsome doctor from Newport whose family is less than enthusiastic about her career. As all of New York hastens toward the future, their ambition may come at the cost of what they truly hold dear.

 

 THE CAST OF SEASON 3

 Bobby Steggert will appear as the famed artist John Singer Sargent, who has just begun his career painting the great ladies of society, while Hannah Shealy is Charlotte Astor, the married daughter of Mrs. Astor (Donna Murphy), recently returned from an eventful trip abroad. Dylan Baker plays Dr. Logan, a family doctor who treats a number of high society families, with Kate Baldwin as Nancy Adams Bell, the older sister of John Adams (Claybourne Elder), Michael Cumpsty as Lord Mildmay, a British nobleman who comes to dine at Sidmouth Castle, and John Ellison Conlee as the successful, educated and polished businessman, Weston! Paul Alexander Nolan has joined as Alfred Merrick, a dashing, wealthy New York businessman, who has all the hallmarks of the old money set – elegance, refinement and sophistication. The Russells invite him to dine at their home in the hopes of charming him into a business deal. Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Harry Richardson, and Blake Ritson will also be joined by Bill Camp, Merritt Wever, Leslie Uggams, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Hattie Morahan, Andrea Martin and Jessica Frances Dukes in the new season which arrives this summer.

SEE THE INCREDIBLE SPLENDOUR IN THE NEW TRAILER FOR WILDLY LAVISH SECOND SEASON OF HBO'S 19TH CENTURY COSTUME DRAMA THE GILDED AGE

  GILDED AGE SEASON TWO 

GETS A BRAND NEW TRAILER

Gilded Age returns October 29th

Well, it has been an extremely long wait, but HBO is finally bringing us the second season of Julian Fellowes' wonderful and highly entertaining costume drama GILDED AGE which will land October 29th with eight new episodes set again during the Gilded Age in America, a period of immense economic change, of great conflict between the old ways and brand new systems and of fortunes made and lost. Over in the United Kingdom, the new season will start a day later, October 30th on Sky Atlantic! Today you can check out the insanely gorgeous and super glitzy costumes in the brand new trailer that has been released today filled with lavish gowns and even more lavish sets, it is splendour all around:

 

THE SECOND SEASON
 begins on Easter morning 1883, with the news that Bertha Russell’s (Carrie Coon) bid for a box at the Academy of Music has been rejected. Throughout the season, Bertha challenges Mrs. Astor (Donna Murphy) and the old system and works to not only gain a foothold in Society but to potentially take a leading role in it. George Russell (Morgan Spector) takes on his own battle with a growing union at his steel plant in Pittsburgh. In the Brook House, Marian (Louisa Jacobson) continues her journey to find her way in the world secretly teaching at a girls’ school while much to everyone’s surprise Ada (Cynthia Nixon) begins a new courtship. Of course, Agnes (Christine Baranski) approves of none of it. In Brooklyn, the Scott family begins to heal from a shocking discovery, and Peggy (Denée Benton) taps into her activist spirit through her work with T. Thomas Fortune at the NY Globe. You can check out who has joined the second season cast in our previous post. Harry Richardson, Blake Ritson, Nathan Lane all return. 

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON JULIAN FELLOWES' NEW 19TH CENTURY NEW YORK SET COSTUME SERIES THE GILDED AGE WHICH STARTS NEXT WEEK FILLED WITH BALLS, GOWNS AND SPLENDOUR

 THE GILDED AGE SERIES 

STARTS NEXT WEEK

New series starts this Monday on HBO Max

First reactions on this one are mixed, from some praising its lavish looks to some comparing it to watching the paint dry, but you will be able to judge for yourself as new nine episode historical series THE GILDED AGE coming from Julian Fellowes is coming to HBO Monday January 24th and then the next day to Sky in UK as well.

It begins in 1882, with young Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson), the orphaned daughter of a Union general who moves into the New York City home of her thoroughly old money aunts Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski) and Ada Brook (Cynthia Nixon). Marian inadvertently becomes caught up in a social war between one of her aunts, a scion of the old money

New Julian Fellowes' series will air in nine hourlong episodes

set, and her stupendously rich neighbors, the ruthless railroad tycoon and his ambitious wife, George and Bertha Russell, plus their son Larry.

 BERTHA RUSSELL

Played by Carrie Coon, she is determined to use her money and position to break into a polite society that resists change at every turn. She is ambitious and desperate to join the cream of society and not entirely likeable. She enjoys egalitarian marriage with George.

GEORGE RUSSELL

Played by Morgan Spector he is a classic robber baron representing "new money". He is a wealthy and ruthless railroad tycoon. He takes pleasure in every part of his life with huge vitality. Sometimes he can be a bit vile too.

AGNES VAN RHIJN

Played by Christine Baranski, she is a proud and stubborn old money Dutch-American socialite clinging to the old values of New York City's elite. She is the pillar of the established upper class and a sort of a snob. 

 MARIAN BROOK

Played by Louisa Jacobson (a rather bland face, who happens to be Meryl Streep's daughter, nepotism much?) Marian Brook is penniless and sent to live with her estranged aunts! She is a sensible and kind pragmatist, except in love.

 

 ADA BROOK

Played by Cynthia Nixon, she is optimistic, unmarried sister of Agnes and reliant upon her charity. She is middle aged, but has a heart of a girl. She is excited about the arrival of her niece, as she has no children of her own.

 

PEGGY SCOTT

Played by Denée Benton, she is a young ambitious writer returning home after finishing her education. She is one of the first people that Marian meets upon her arrival in New York. Peggy  does not care what the society thinks.

 

TOM RAIKES

Played by Australian hunkster and actor Thomas Cocquerel! He is a very charming and decent, young lawyer from Pennsylvania who is smitten with Marian, despite Agnes’ disapproval. He moves to New York to be close to her and work there.

OSCAR VAN RHIJN

Played by Blake Ritson who is well known to the fans of historical and period set shows and dramas.The prodigal son of Agnes is a man about town with a few secrets of his own. He is secretly in a gay relationship with his best friend Adams.

LARRY RUSSELL

Played by Poldark's Harry Richardson. Having just returned from Harvard, the debonair son of George and Bertha is starting to meet all the right people while he tries to sort the path he will take with his life. He actually wants to be an architect.

WHO ELSE IS IN THE CAST?

Set in the boom years of the 1880's New York, the series will also feature Taissa Farmiga as Gladys Russell, innocent and naive, yet ready to be

Taissa Farmiga is Gladys Russell

treated as an adult, Blake Ritson as Oscar van Rhijn, Agnes van Rhijn's charismatic son who does not return her adulation, Simon Jones as

Michael Cerveris is Watson, George's valet

Bannister, the Van Rhijns' butler, Harry Richardson as Larry Russell, recent Harvard University graduate eager to make his way in the world,

Ben Ahlers is Jack Trotter, Van Rhijn's footman

Thomas Cocquerel as Tom Raikes, a sensible young lawyer, smitten when he meets Marian, his late client's orphaned daughter, Jack Gilpin as Church,

Simon Jones is Bannister, Van Rhijn's butler

the Russell family's butler, evading his past by excelling at his job, with Jane Tripplehorn and Nathan Lane also as guest stars. The series was originally

Jack Gilpin is Church, the butler of the Russells

planned for ITV ten years ago, then it moved to NBC and then to HBO and Sky.  Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think:

 

NETFLIX RELEASES TRAILERS FOR SOPHIA LOREN'S MOVING DRAMA THE LIFE AHEAD AND DOLLY PARTON'S CHRISTMAS ON THE SQUARE FESTIVE MOVIE MUSICAL

THE LIFE AHEAD TRAILER

 BRINGS BACK SOPHIA LOREN TO WORK AFTER TEN YEARS

The Life Ahead streams November 13th

Netflix has finally released a trailer for upcoming drama movie THE LIFE AHEAD with Sophia Loren and it is very moving indeed. Directed by her son Edoardo Ponti and scheduled for streaming from November 13th, the possible award contender next season is set in seaside Italy, where Italian acting legend Sophia Loren plays a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business who takes in a 12-year-old street kid (Ibrahima Gueye) who recently robbed her. The film is actually a remake of a French foreign language movie Oscar winner from 1977 with Simone Signoret. The film will stream worldwide on Netflix next month. This is Sophia's first movie after a ten year pause. 

FESTIVE TRAILER FOR

DOLLY PARTON'S CHRISTMAS ON THE SQUARE MOVIE MUSICAL

The musical starts November 22nd at Netflix

Speaking of old divas, check out country music queen Dolly Parton in the trailer for musical movie DOLLY PARTON'S CHRISTMAS ON THE SQUARE which will sing its way onto Netflix November 22nd with 14 original new festive songs (written by Dolly) and with Christine Baranski as a rich and nasty woman, Regina Fuller, who returns to her small home town after her father’s death to evict everyone and sell the land to a mall developer – right before Christmas. However, after listening to the stories of the local townsfolk, reconnecting with an old love, and accepting the guidance of an actual angel (Dolly Parton), Regina starts to have a change of heart.