Lifetime is adapting its 2010 film The Client List into a TV series starring and produced by Jennifer Love Hewitt, Deadline reports.
The network has ordered 10 episodes of the series, which will launch sometime next year.
Lifetime has also signed a development deal for both potential series and movies with Hewitt's production company, Fedora Films, which also include Hewitt directing an upcoming Lifetime movie. "Beloved by viewers, Jennifer Love Hewitt is an amazing talent on and off the screen and we are very excited about continuing our relationship with her on The Client List," said Lifetime Networks' president and general manager, Nancy Dubuc, told the site. "This project falls in line with our strategy to
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Jennifer Love Hewitt is returning to TV in a familiar -- and racy -- role.
The 32-year-old Ghost Whisperer actress will reprise her role as Texas housewife-turned-stripper Samantha Horton in a TV version of Lifetime's popular 2010 movie The Client List.
The 10-episode series will follow Hewitt's Horton as she resorts to prostitution to support her family through the recession.
Hewitt -- who prepped for her TV movie role by taking pole dancing lessons -- said she found some unlikely support when taking on the project.
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