HBO’s ‘The Gilded Age’ Season 4 Ratings: Most-Watched Premiere Yet

Things are still looking gilded for HBO’s “The Gilded Age.” The series returned on Nov. 1 to its most-watched season premiere yet, averaging nearly 4 million viewers across platforms, according to the cabler/streamer. In the first three days of availability, “The Gilded Age” scored just under 4 million viewers across linear and HBO Max, the platform announced. That’s up 25% from last season’s premiere, which averaged 3.2 million. HBO noted that once a longer tail of delayed multiplatform viewership was tallied up, “The Gilded Age” Season 3 averaged 8.8 million viewers per episode. “The Gilded Age” Season 4 airs Sunday nights at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and streams on HBO Max. Here’s the Season 4 logline: “Bertha Russell changed Society at a cost. Now, her family must reckon with the consequences as Agnes van Rhijn seizes an opportunity to regain her position. Meanwhile, Marian forges a new path for herself and Peggy works to be accepted by her future in-laws. In this new era, you must be careful what you wish for.” The Season 4 cast includes Carrie Coon, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Morgan Spector, Louisa Jacobson, Denée Benton, Taissa Farmiga, Harry Richardson, Blake Ritson, Ben Ahlers, Ashlie Atkinson, Dylan Baker, Kelley Curran, Jordan Donica, Jessica Frances Dukes, Amy Forsyth, Jack Gilpin, Simon Jones, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Ben Lamb, Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Debra Monk, Hattie Morahan, Donna Murphy, Kristine Nielsen, Kelli O’Hara, Taylor Richardson, Douglas Sills, Erin Wilhelmi, John Douglas Thompson, Taylor Trensch, James Scully, Dennis Haysbert, Maggie Kuntz, Neal Huff, Bonnie Milligan, Jim Gaffigan, Dallas Roberts, Andrew Burnap, Elizabeth Marvel, Adrienne Warren, with Bill Camp and Phylicia Rashad. Julian Fellowes is the creator, writer and executive producer. Other credits include director and executive producer Salli Richardson-Whitfield; writer and executive producer Sonja Warfield; executive producers Gareth Neame, David Crockett, Bob Greenblatt, Kate Churchill, Davita Scarlett and Elaine Aronson; co-executive producers Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Holly Rymon. HBO and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, are behind the series.