Ellen Pompeo’s Natalia Grace-Inspired Hulu Series Gets First Look, Release Date

Ellen Pompeo’s Natalia Grace-Inspired Hulu Series Gets First Look, Release Date

Ellen Pompeo‘s Natalia Grace-inspired Hulu series has released its first look and premiere date.

The anticipated eight-episode limited series, Good American Family, will release two episodes on March 19 on Hulu, followed by weekly installments for the remainder of its run.

The series was announced back in summer 2022, prompting Pompeo to scale back her onscreen role on ABC’s veteran medical series Grey’s Anatomy so she could star in and exec produce Good American Family, which was at the time described as an untitled orphan project for the streamer.

Pompeo stayed on as Grey’s weekly voiceover narrator but scaled back her appearances as Meredith Grey (she is also an executive producer). When filming wrapped on Good American Family, she upped her onscreen role for season 21, which returns March 6 on ABC.

Good American Family is a dramatization of the Natalia Grace story. Grace, who has a rare form of dwarfism known as spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, has become a familiar name as her story has been told across three seasons of the ID docuseries The Curious Case of Natalia Grace. The series concluded earlier in January after exploring how Grace, who was legally proven to be 21 years old, was abused by two adoptive families before finding her current fresh start with a new family, Vincent and Nicole DePaul.

Here’s the logline for Good American Family: “Told from multiple points of view, as a means to explore issues of perspective, bias, and trauma, this compelling drama is inspired by the disturbing stories surrounding a Midwestern couple who adopts a girl with a rare form of dwarfism. But as they begin to raise her alongside their three biological children, mystery emerges around her age and background, and they slowly start to suspect she may not be who she says she is. As they defend their family from the daughter they’ve grown to believe is a threat, she fights her own battle to confront her past and what her future holds, in a showdown that ultimately plays out in the tabloids and the courtroom.”

Along with Pompeo, the series star Mark Duplass and Imogen Reid. Dulé Hill, Christina Hendricks, Sarayu Blue and Jenny O’Hara are recurring guest stars.

Good American Family is created by executive producer Katie Robbins, who is co-showrunner with executive producer Sarah Sutherland. Pompeo executive produces through her production banner Calamity Jane with Laura Holstein. Andrew Stearn, Dan Spilo, Niles Kirchner and Mike Epps also executive produce. Liz Garbus directed and executive produced the pilot. The limited series is produced by 20th Television.