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LOS ANGELES, November 10, 2026 — Netflix has unveiled first-look images and a premiere date for The Age of Innocence, a limited series starring Camila Morrone, Kristine Froseth and Ben Radcliffe, the streamer said in a post shared on X.
The series will premiere on February 18, 2027, according to Netflix’s Tudum site and a Netflix announcement dated November 10. Netflix’s post on X gave the date as February 18 without naming the year.
Netflix said the new limited series is based on Edith Wharton’s classic novel of forbidden love in 19th-century New York. The post asked, “What is love and what is lust?”
What the series is about
According to Netflix’s Tudum site, all eight episodes will be released on February 18. The official logline describes a passionate will-they-won’t-they love triangle that explores freedom, duty, identity and love in all its forms, and says the adaptation is intended to stay true to Wharton’s novel while speaking to a new generation as it “traverse[s] the ballrooms and bedrooms of its young characters.” Tudum says Emma Frost’s adaptation brings 1870s New York City high society to life.
Showrunner, writer and executive producer Emma Frost told Tudum: “Newland, the perfect society gentleman, is newly engaged to the perfect society young woman, May. Into that comes May’s cousin Ellen, who is beset by scandal. Newland knew Ellen as a child and falls passionately in love with her. The story is about the choice between following your heart or staying with duty and convention.”
Wharton published the novel in 1920 and became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Netflix said. Martin Scorsese’s 1993 film adaptation received five Academy Award nominations and one win, according to Tudum. Frost also told the site that the title “refers to a world that’s lost its innocence.”
Cast and creative team
Tudum says Radcliffe, whose work includes Masters of the Air and Anatomy of a Scandal, plays Newland Archer, a progressive society gentleman who “craves a deeper and more passionate connection to the world.” Froseth, who also stars in the Wharton-based series The Buccaneers, plays his fiancée, May Welland, described as kind, genuine and a believer in the status quo, with a rebellious streak. Morrone, of Daisy Jones & the Six, plays May’s cousin Ellen Olenska, an intelligent and independent free spirit who returns to New York after a failed marriage to a Polish nobleman.
Margo Martindale plays their grandmother, Mrs Manson Mingott. The wider regular cast, as listed by Netflix, includes Fiona Glascott as May’s mother, Augusta Welland; Belinda Bromilow as Newland’s mother, Adeline Archer; Emma Shipp as Newland’s sister, Janey Archer; and John Light as Mr Lovell Mingott.
Frost, whose earlier credits listed by Tudum include The White Queen, The White Princess, Jamaica Inn and Shameless, wrote all eight episodes and executive produces with Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping and Tracey Cook. Shannon Murphy, whose work includes Dying for Sex and Babyteeth, directs alongside Lisa Brühlmann (Killing Eve) and Natalia Leite (The Handmaid’s Tale), according to Tudum.
Frost told Tudum that “Ben Radcliffe was a revelation as Newland”, that Morrone “is fearless as a performer”, and that Froseth “made May effervescent and open, innocent, and hopeful”.
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