After the success of North of North, Netflix has ordered a new Canadian drama The Granville Girls from Adriana Maggs (Frontier) and Murdoch Mysteries production company Shaftesbury.
The Granville Girls will be adapted from Cat Cahill’s The Gilbert Girls book series. The romantic drama will follow a young woman getting an exclusive job at a hotel as the railway project across the Canadian Rockies increases its development. While there, she breaks the rules by pursuing a relationship with one of the male workers. The official synopsis reads:
As the great railway sweeps across the Canadian Rockies, Emma Daniels becomes a ‘Granville Girl,’ one of a select few women hired to work at the Granville Hotel. The job offers adventure, friendship, and a chance to support her family—if she can resist the hotel’s strictest rule: never fraternize with the men. But when Emma’s heart is captured by the hotel’s mysterious builder, she faces a choice that could cost her everything.
Maggs will showrun and write the series for Shaftesbury. Christina Jennings, Shaftesbury’s founder and president, will executive produce. “Shaftesbury is delighted to partner with Netflix and showrunner Adriana Maggs to bring The Granville Girls to the screen,” Jennings said. “Global audiences will discover the splendour of the Rocky Mountains — a perfect setting for our young women to explore adventure, friendship and romance.”
The Granville Girls is a big, blue sky series that offers the comfort of female friendship and the allure of period romance,” said Danielle Woodrow and Tara Woodbury, Netflix’s Directors of Content in Canada. “Between Adriana’s distinctive voice and Christina’s powerhouse producing, we’re confident that audiences are going to be hooked from the first episode.”
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