With the debut of The French Chef in 1963, television made Julia Child a star. Now, almost sixty years later, the late celebrity chef is returning to TV yet again—not as a host, of course, but as the lead character in a dramatic series based around her life. Julia—as the show will be called—is billed as being "inspired by Julia Child's extraordinary life and her long-running television series, The French Chef, which pioneered the now popular genre of cooking shows." The series—which will star two-time British Academy Television Awards winner Sarah Lancashire as the famed chef—will also explore "an evolving time in American history—the emergence of public television as a new social institution, feminism and the women's movement, the nature of celebrity and America's cultural growth. At its heart, the series is a portrait of a loving marriage with an evolving and complicated power dynamic."