Julianna Margulies to Make TV Return in AMC Revenge Drama Dietland
Erstwhile Good Wife Julianna Margulies will make her return to series television in Marti Noxon’s upcoming AMC drama Dietland, TVLine has learned. Margulies will play Kitty Montgomery in the Marti Noxon-helmed adaptation of Sarai Walker’s 2015 novel.
The revenge-fantasy drama centers on Plum Kettle (played by Joy Nash, Twin Peaks), an obese woman whose plan to undergo weight-loss surgery is thrown askew when rival feminist factions get involved. Margulies’ Kitty is a very ambitious magazine editor who’s not quite sure how to cope when a feminist terrorist organization goes after people close to her. “Sucked into a terrifying news cycle, Kitty can no longer rely on her old-school media power,” the official character description notes, “and must instead play a whole new game of master manipulation where rules no longer apply.”
Since CBS’ The Good Wife ended in 2016, Margulies’ only TV credit came from playing a version of herself in an episode of Pop’s Nightcap. Previously, of course, she was the Carol to George Clooney’s Doug on ER.
“Juliana is diabolically talented and beautiful, which makes her perfect to play our Kitty. I am genuinely honored to have the opportunity to work with her. She’s a special human and a rare actor,” Dietland executive producer/showrunner Noxon (Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce) said via statement. “I can’t wait to start and for the world to get a load of this show. I am also so grateful to AMC and [co-producer] Skydance for supporting us and trusting the Dietland team with this provocative, wild story.”
Dietland is set inside the beauty industry and will focus on society’s obsession with weight loss and beauty. AMC ordered a 10-episode first season in July. The series is expected to premiere in 2018.
What in the holy hell?
What a bunch of hockey. From the above article I have no clue what this show will be about. Sorry Julianne somewhat of a poor choice to return.
Literally read the first sentence of the second paragraph.
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It would probably help to explain what the feminist factions really are and what their motives are to better clarify what this show is about. It’s still fairly vague, as I, for one, have not heard of anything like a “feminist terrorist organization”.
DEADLINE.com has a somewhat better description. It seems what is noted above was poorly, needlessly, edited.
Agreed.
I hope there’s room in the cast for Archie Panjabi. It would be fun to see what gyrations they’d have to go through to make sure that her character never shared screen time with “Kitty Montgomery”.
You sound like a very bitter person.
It’s also unclear why you put Kitty Montgomery in quotes, although grammatical errors seem like the least of your problems.
You need to lighten up Kevin.
As do people obsessing over a one-sided opinion of a story that happened between actresses years ago.
Archie Panjabi will be on the Nov. 14 episode of Bull. It’s wonderful to see her return to another courtroom drama.
I can hardly wait for Dietland!
For some reason I see this as a better fit for TNT over AMC. I kind of thought this might fit well with Claws.
Will she film all of her scenes in front of a green screen so she won’t have to actually film any of her scenes with other actors?
Only if they’re more popular than her.
This was a really good book! Hope they don’t screw it up!
so this probably doesn’t bode well for an appearance on The Good Fight. Although there’s probably still time with only a 10-episode stint being ordered.
Oh, I loved Kitty Montgomery on Dharma & Greg, she was hilarious. 😉😛😂
BORING!
Her miniseries The Mists of Avalon was also technically a TV credit.
‘Tis never the intent to denote every single acting credit. We’d run out of ink.