‘The Gilded Age’ Renewed for Season 4 at HBO — Everything We Know So Far

The Gilded Age will return. HBO announced on Monday, July 28, that the series has been renewed for Season 4. This comes after the release of Season 3 Episode 6 on Sunday, July 27. There are two episodes left to go in the third season. The Season 3 finale will air on Sunday, August 10, on HBO.

According to HBO, total premiere-night viewing for the third season has grown for five consecutive weeks, culminating in a 20 percent growth compared to last season. Fan engagement has also climbed, with social chatter rising nearly 60 percent week over week.

The show has also received its most critical acclaim to date with Season 3, its highest-stakes season so far. In the July 27 episode, the series that’s known for its low stakes but high-camp drama, a character was seemingly killed off in violent (for The Gilded Age) fashion. The show is already Emmy-winning. Production designer Bob Shaw took home an Emmy for Season 1 and it has seven nominations total. Season 2 was nominated for Outstanding Drama Series, and stars Carrie Coon and Christine Baranski were also nominated for their performances.

Carrie Coon and her costars have been advocating for more seasons throughout Season 3’s release. Julian Fellowes and collaborator Sonja Warfield shared their thoughts on the show’s long game with TV Insider ahead of The Gilded Age Season 3 premiere. Here’s what Fellowes, Warfield, and Coon have said about the show’s future.

Will there be a Gilded Age Season 4?

Yes, the series will come back. The renewal announcement did not include details on when production will begin.

When does The Gilded Age Season 4 premiere?

A premiere date will be announced at a later time. Season 1 debuted in 2022, Season 2 in 2023, and then there was a two-year gap before Season 3 premiered in June 2025.

How many seasons of The Gilded Age will there be?

Fellowes didn’t have a series ending in mind when he first created the story for The Gilded Age. He told TV Insider that the job is to “reinvent” the show every season, but they did know how they wanted Season 3 to end when they started writing it.

“We knew where we wanted to go at the end of the season, and so then we reverse engineered it to build up to that,” Warfield told TV Insider (Warfield is showrunner, writer, and executive producer alongside Fellowes).

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“I don’t think we do have a final stopping place because we’re not told there’ll be a fourth series or a fifth or whatever,” said Fellowes in his joint interview with Warfield, which was conducted prior to the renewal announcement. “But each time you have to reinvent the show in order to give it a new dynamic to fit its new proportions. And I think that is part of our job. That’s part of what you do if you write a series for television. So in a sense, each [season] has to have a satisfactory conclusion given what’s taken place within the series, but an open end where we may be going to, and that is the sort of double discipline that we write to really.”

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Coon previously told TV Insider that the cast wanted The Gilded Age Season 4. The topic came up when discussing the possibility of George (Morgan Spector) and Bertha Russell (Coon) facing divorce in the third season. The couple is loosely based on William and Alva Vanderbilt, whose 1895 divorce was a huge scandal (The Gilded Age Season 3 takes place in 1883).

While Aurora Fane’s (Kelli O’Hara) looming divorce with husband Charles Fane (Ward Horton) introduced the subject in Sunday’s Season 3 premiere, it’s going to be a threat for more than one couple this season — one that Coon says would likely extend into a fourth season.

“Bertha is preemptively trying to make society comfortable for divorced women,” Coon said. “We know Bertha, we know that any effort she’s making is not entirely altruistic. There’s always something self-serving in that effort. And so perhaps if we were to get a Season 4, which we would love to have, we would explore that possibility.”

Coon added that “the train hasn’t left the station” on George and Bertha’s marriage just yet. But their conflicting views about daughter Gladys’ (Taissa Farmiga) marriage and future are going to bring serious conflict into their own union. The war is coming home for Bertha in The Gilded Age Season 3. Splitting this fan-favorite power couple up would make for juicy drama for this season and the now-confirmed Season 4.

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