{"id":896164,"date":"2026-10-27T08:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T08:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/896164\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T08:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T08:18:10","slug":"gilded-age-creator-julian-fellowes-calls-hbos-casey-bloys-our-protector-our-defender-from-very-early-days-during-season-4-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/896164\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Gilded Age&#8217; Creator Julian Fellowes Calls HBO&#8217;s Casey Bloys &#8220;Our Protector &#038; Our Defender From Very Early Days&#8221; During Season 4 Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/julian-fellowes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_julian-fellowes\" data-tag=\"julian-fellowes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julian Fellowes<\/a> attended <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-gilded-age\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-gilded-age\" data-tag=\"the-gilded-age\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Gilded Age<\/a>\u2018s Season 4 premiere at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, where he thanked <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/casey-bloys\/\" id=\"auto-tag_casey-bloys\" data-tag=\"casey-bloys\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Casey Bloys<\/a> for believing in the series from the start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI have a special place in my heart for Casey Bloys, our protector, our gladiator, our defender from very, very early days,\u201d Fellowes said before the screening. \u201cAnyone who enjoys the show owes him a great deal. I certainly do, and I say that with both pride and happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2019\/05\/julian-fellowes-the-gilded-age-moves-nbc-to-hbo-series-order-1202606343\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline reported in 2019<\/a> that, after NBC ordered the series, the creator\u2019s vision for the period piece proved too ambitious for the constraints of broadcast TV. Universal TV shopped the series, and it landed at <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hbo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo\" data-tag=\"hbo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO<\/a> in a competitive situation. The series finally premiered in 2022, with Season 4 debuting on Sunday, November 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDuring the presentation, Fellowes also gave a shout-out to NBCU\u2019s Pearlena Igbokwe as \u201cone of the first to recognize\u201d the specialness of the series. He also mentioned Bob Greenblatt for not letting it rest and for making the series, and called HBO\u2019s Francesca Orsi \u201cwonderful\u201d for bringing the series home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFellowes said that he had always been interested in the Gilded Age, calling it \u201ca very interesting period of American history,\u201d adding, \u201cI think it was the beginning of modern America, and it was the moment that America decided they didn\u2019t want to copy Europe and have five generations before anyone could be invited for dinner and all that kind of thing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWhatever one says about the so-called robber barons, the fact is, within a few years, the century would begin what we would know of as the American century,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd in both world wars, the voice of America was the loudest at the peace table, because America had arrived, and it was the big, giant new power of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julian Fellowes attended The Gilded Age\u2018s Season 4 premiere at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[96995,88,1035,51072,8408,92],"class_list":["post-896164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-casey-bloys","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo","tag-julian-fellowes","tag-the-gilded-age","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}