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date (day) time network episode title
9/13/10 (Mo.)9:00 PMLIFETIMEN/A






19TH WIFE, THE (LIFETIME)
BROADCAST HISTORY:
9/13/10
STATUS:
telefilm/mini-series in the can
DESCRIPTION:
(from Lifetime's press release, June 2010) Chyler Leigh (Grey's Anatomy), Matt Czuchry (The Good Wife) and Patricia Wettig (Brothers & Sisters) have been cast to star in the upcoming Lifetime Original Movie The 19th Wife, it was announced today by Tanya Lopez, Senior Vice President of Original Movies, Lifetime Networks. The film, from Sony Pictures Television, is based on David Ebershoff's New York Times best-selling novel that takes an inside look at the secret world of polygamy. The 19th Wife will premiere on Lifetime in the fall. The film follows "19th Wife" and fundamentalist sect "First Church of Latter Day Saints" member BeckyLyn (Wettig), who is accused of killing her husband. Queenie (Leigh), another wife in the sect, doesn't believe BeckyLyn is capable of such violence and, desperate to prove her innocence, reaches out to her excommunicated son Jordan (Czuchry) for help in freeing his mother. But when Queenie and Jordan start asking questions about the fateful night of the murder, they quickly see all is not what it seems -- putting their own lives at risk.
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Chyler Leigh as Queenie
· Matt Czuchry as Jordan
· Patricia Wettig as BeckyLyn
CREW INFORMATION:
· Andrea Baynes as EP
· Barbara Lieberman as EP
· David Ebershoff as BOOK
· Richard Friedenberg as WRTR
· Rod Holcomb as DIR
GENRE(S):
· based on a book
· mow
STUDIO INFORMATION:
· Sony Pictures Television