TV review: Fellowes’s New York extravaganza shows all that’s Gilded is not gold

Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes’s new period drama, set in 1880s New York, is an unsubtle and clunky affair

Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski in The Gilded Age on Sky Atlantic: the plot is as overstated as a nouveau riche character’s spectacular outfits. Picture: Alison Cohen Rossa

The Gilded Age (Sky Atlantic)

The Responder (BBC One)

Crimes and Confessions (RTÉ One)

Imagine Central Park, New York in 1882. As in Bach’s aria, sheep may safely graze until a clattering convoy of horse-drawn wagons bowls along a curving roadway. They’re bearing Grecian statues and other loot from Europe for an enormous white mansion being constructed on the corner of 51st Street by ruthless railroad tycoon George Russell (Morgan Spector) and his upwardly mobile ...