TELEVISION ADAPTATION FROM MARTI NOXON, AMC STUDIOS AND SKYDANCE TV IS SLATED TO PREMIERE IN 2018
NEW YORK, NY – November 7, 2017 – AMC announced today that producer and Emmy® and Golden Globe® Award-winning actress Julianna Margulies (“The Good Wife,” “ER”) will play the role of Kitty Montgomery in “Dietland,” the upcoming original series from executive producer and showrunner Marti Noxon (“Mad Men,” “UnReal,” “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce”). The series is a co-production between AMC Studios and Skydance Television under its Uncharted label and is based on Sarai Walker’s 2015 best-selling novel of the same name. AMC previously announced the casting of Joy Nash (“The Mindy Project,” “Twin Peaks”) as the lead character, Plum Kettle. “Dietland” is slated to premiere in 2018 with a 10-episode order.
Margulies’ character, Kitty, is a wildly ambitious magazine editor whose world is thrown into chaos when a feminist terrorist organization starts targeting people in her orbit. Sucked into a terrifying news cycle, Kitty can no longer rely on her old-school media power and must instead play a whole new game of master manipulation where rules no longer apply.
“Julianna 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,” said Noxon. “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 Skydance for supporting us and trusting the ‘Dietland’ team with this provocative, wild story.”
Set against the backdrop of the beauty industry, “Dietland” follows Plum Kettle (Nash), an obese woman who is preparing for weight loss surgery when her world is upturned by two rival feminist factions. Caught between old ideas and radical new extremes, Plum must decide for herself what it means to be a revolutionary as the “war of the sexes” becomes literal.
Along with Noxon, Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Marcy Ross serve as executive producers on “Dietland,” as well as Maria Grasso of Tiny Pyro, Bonnie Curtis and Julie Lynn of Mockingbird Pictures, and Jacqueline Hoyt.
About AMC
AMC is home to some of the most popular and acclaimed programs on television. AMC was the first basic cable network to ever win the Emmy® Award for Outstanding Drama Series with “Mad Men” in 2008, which then went on to win the coveted award four years in a row, before “Breaking Bad” won it in 2013 and 2014. The network’s series “The Walking Dead” is the highest-rated series in cable history and the number one show on television among adults 18-49 for the last six years. AMC’s other current original drama series include “Better Call Saul,” “Fear the Walking Dead,” “Halt and Catch Fire,” “Humans,” “Into the Badlands,” “Preacher,” “The Son,” “TURN: Washington’s Spies” and the forthcoming “The Terror,” “McMafia,” “Lodge 49” and “Dietland.” AMC also explores authentic worlds and discussion with original shows like “Talking Dead,” “Talking with Chris Hardwick,” “Comic Book Men” and “Ride with Norman Reedus.” AMC is owned and operated by AMC Networks Inc. and its sister networks include IFC, SundanceTV, BBC America and WE tv. AMC is available across all platforms, including on-air, online, on demand and mobile.
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