# HBO’s ‘Downton Abbey’ Replacement Is Losing 2 Key Stars Ahead of Season 4

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/hbos-downton-abbey-replacement-is-losing-2-key-stars-ahead-of-season-4/
- Published: 2026-10-29T18:15:12+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-29T19:37:09+00:00
- Original publisher: Collider
- Original article: https://collider.com/gilded-age-season-4-cast-not-returning-streaming-hbo/
- Topics: Business, Markets

## Key points

- Patrick Page and Sullivan Jones are leaving The Gilded Age.
- Page’s exit leaves the attack on George Russell unresolved.
- Fortune’s storyline had already receded from the drama.

## Summary

Two recurring cast members, Patrick Page and Sullivan Jones, will not return for the fourth season of HBO’s historical drama The Gilded Age. Page’s departure is more consequential because his character, Richard Clay, was implicated in the season-three shooting of railway tycoon George Russell, leaving the show to resolve a major cliffhanger without an obvious suspect.

Jones played newspaper editor T. Thomas Fortune, whose professional and romantic ties to Peggy Scott had largely faded by season three. He appeared in only one episode that season, while Peggy’s career and new relationship developed without him, suggesting his storyline had reached a natural end.

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