MONEY rules

What to expect as the Manhattan-set period epic returns...

- CAREN CLARK

THE GILDED AGE

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SKY ATLANTIC DRAMA

The societal battle between old and new money continues as we return to glittering 1880s New York City for a second series of Sky Atlantic’s The Gilded Age.

The new eight-part run finds ruthless nouveau-riche railroad tycoon George Russell (played by Morgan Spector) and his ambitious wife Bertha (Carrie Coon) still trying to secure their place among their established neighbours – caustic Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski), her kindly sister Ada Brook (Cynthia Nixon) and their spirited niece Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson).

Here, writers Lord Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey) and Sonja Warfield (Will & Grace) talk TV Times through the key storyline threads…

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