The Gilmore Girl

The Gilmore Girl was an American television series, a spin off of Gilmore Girls (2000 - 2007), that aired on The CW from September 2008 to December 2010, for 3 seasons. It follows the youth of Gilmore Girls recurring character Lorelai 'Trix' Gilmore. The show is set in the 1930s and follows Trix's early years as a married Gilmore girl.

Synopsis
What was life in Connecticut like during the depression? Years before the beloved Lorelai Gilmore entered the world, there was the first Lorelai. The Gilmore Girl follows Richard's mother and Lorelai's grandmother as she marries into the prestigious Gilmore family and works her way up social ladders, but it's not as easy as she expected.

Background
After the cancellation of Gilmore Girls in 2007, The CW were eager to bring Amy Sherman Palladino back to the network after their contract disagreement in the summer of 2006.

After much deliberation, a prequel spin-off was announced by the network, following Lorelai Gilmore's grandmother in her youth. British actress Felicity Jones was cast in the role, with Jake Gyllenhaal following as her husband, Robert Gilmore. Lauren Graham was cast in the recurring role of Lorelai's sister Margaret.

The CW added the show to it's 2008 fall line-up and a trailer premiered during the summer, confirming roles for the majority of the original series' cast in some capacity, featuring appearances by Kelly Bishop, Edward Hermann, Alexis Bledel and Liza Weil.

The Gilmore Girl premiered to critical acclaim, Entertainment Weekly branded it "a triumphant return in every essence" and The Hollywood Reporter calling it "exactly how Gilmore Girls would've been 70 years ago."

The CW gave the show a full season order a day after the premiere and in November 2008, it was renewed for a second season. The second season started airing in September 2009 and concluded in May 2010.

In June 2010, The Hollywood Reporter published an article revealing Amy Sherman Palladino was again unhappy with the network. The agreed to produce a final season of the show, not wanting to make the same mistake she made with Gilmore Girls. The third season, made up of a shorter run of 12 episodes, concluded on December 13th 2010.

In 2015, a revival of Gilmore Girls was commissioned by Netflix, with Sherman Palladino returning to produce the series. Rumors surfaced online that Netflix had also acquired the rights to the show's spin off, and a revival of the show was also on the cards depending on the success of the revival. After record breaking registration numbers and streaming requests for the new series, in December 2016, Netflix released a teaser trailer for The Gilmore Girl: Motherhood, that would be set in Wartime America. Netflix confirmed the series would comprise of 4 episodes and Felicity Jones, who had recently starred in Star Wars: Rogue One, would return for the series.