MGM+ Greenlights Gilded Age-Era Series ‘The American Heiress’ Starring Julianna Margulies

Emmy-winning Paradise star Julianna Margulies will headline an MGM+ series based on a novel by Daisy Goodwin, the British writer behind ITV/PBS Masterpiece show Victoria. MGM+ will adapt Goodwin’s 2011 book The American Heiress into an eight-part romantic comedy of manners, set during America’s Gilded Age and England’s Victorian era.