Pilot Season: Blythe Danner, Madeline Zima Check In to Shonda Rhimes' Gilded Lillys Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2012 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 08:36 a.m., Saturday, February 11, 2012 Two-time Emmy winner Blythe Danner (Huff), Madeline Zima (Californication) and Sarah Bolger (The Tudors) have joined Shonda Rhimes' period drama pilot Gilded Lillys. Pilot Season: ABC orders Shonda Rhimes' period drama pilot Written by KJ Steinberg (Gossip Girl, The Nine) and set in 1895, Lillys follows the opening of the first true luxury hotel built in New York City, along with the Lily family who owns it, the staff who work there and those who stay there.