HBO Confirms 'The Gilded Age' Season 3 Will Debut in 2025
Harry Richardson as Larry Russell and Louisa Jacobson as Marian Brook in 'The Gilded Age' Season 3
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During the 2010s, the Game of Thrones season finales were infamous among TV reporters as HBO's big moment to drop the first looks at the other major series heading to the network in the months to come. House of the Dragon may never reach the heights of the original series it was spun off from, but it still brings in plenty of viewers, enough that its finale is now the prime moment for HBO to continue the tradition of releasing a clip reel of series to look forward to and sketching out their release windows. For fans of The Gilded Age, that included a first look at a Season 3 romance and the (unsurprising) news that the series won't debut until 2025.
Considering The Gilded Age is still announcing new cast as filming continues in earnest, the chances of the show arriving before the end of 2024 were slim at best, but fans of the show held out hope Julian Fellowes' series could finally settle into a year-to-year release schedule after the upheaval of pandemic filming. But apparently, that's not the case, as the show's first footage comes in the second half of the new trailer, placing it firmly in the "2025 arrivals" section.
However, HBO is not just limited to Fellowes' costume extravaganza when it comes the British programming. The network, which is still, a destination for great television (despite Warner Bros. Discovery's best efforts), has a long tradition of British and British-ish shows, from the unsung Industry (which is heavily featured) to Westeros-set series like A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, the latest from the Game of Thrones franchise. There are also several glimpses of the British-actor-studded series The White Lotus, which is now in Season 3; Emily Watson, who anchors the Dune franchise spinoff Dune: Prophecy; Colin Farrell in the titular role in The Batman spinoff, The Penguin; and future OBE Bella Ramsey in Season 2 of The Last of Us.
Most of the series listed do not yet have fixed release dates, save for Industry, with HBO merely breaking them into "coming before the end of 2024" and "coming in 2025." However, speaking of franchises! The most exciting series included among these clips is the first look at the U.K. comedy The Franchise, which HBO initially boarded two years ago, in August 2022. The brainchild of British director Sam Mendes (Skyfall) and written by Scottish comedian Armando Iannucci (known for other HBO series like Veep and Avenue 5, but first and foremost as the creator of The Thick of It), The Franchise satirizes the process behind creating superhero blockbusters, and those artists who find themselves selling their soul for the honor of creating color-by-numbers claptrap than end in soulless CGI battles.
The cast is a mix of British and American talent. It stars British actors Jessica Hynes (Miss Austen), Lolly Adefope (Saltburn), and Himesh Patel (Station Eleven), with recurring roles for Ruaridh Mollica (Sexy Beast) and Marvel franchise players Richard E. Grant (Loki) and Daniel Brühl (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier). The series hails from Call The Midwife's Neal Street Productions, with Mendes directing all episodes.
Industry will premiere on Sunday, August 11, 2024, at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and Max, taking over the House of the Dragon berth and air/stream one episode a week through September. The Franchise, Dune: Prophecy, and The Penguin are all listed among the 2024 titles; The Gilded Age Season 3, The White Lotus Season 3, The Last of Us Season 2, and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms are all currently slated for 2025.
