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Netflix Greenlights ‘The Granville Girls,’ an Eight-Episode Canadian Period Romance

The adaptation moves Cat Cahill’s Colorado-set novels to the Canadian Rockies under showrunner Adriana Maggs.

Overview

  • Netflix ordered eight episodes of The Granville Girls, a new series produced by Shaftesbury with Christina Jennings as executive producer.
  • The show is adapted from Cat Cahill’s The Gilbert Girls romance novels.
  • An official logline centers on Emma Daniels, a worker at the Granville Hotel during the railway boom, who faces a forbidden relationship with the hotel’s mysterious builder.
  • The project is in early development with no casting announced and no filming schedule disclosed.
  • Netflix framed the series as part of its growing period and western romance slate, according to statements from its Canada content chiefs.