Lifetime Greenlights New Original Movie

LOS ANGELES, June 22: Lifetime Television has greenlit a new
original movie with the working title Custody, starring Numb3rs’ Rob
Morrow and Desperate Housewives’ James
Denton.

The movie will premiere on Lifetime this September. Custody
features Morrow as a widowed middle-class
college professor named David who raises his stepdaughter Amanda, played by Kay
Panabaker (Warner Bros.’ Nancy Drew),
as his own, after she loses her mother. Their world is turned upside down when
Amanda’s biological father and wealthy entrepreneur John Sullivan, played by
James Denton (Desperate Housewives),
returns to claim the daughter he left behind. John is determined to win
Amanda's affection by showing her the possibility of an affluent lifestyle, as
David continues to show her that being a parent means much more than sharing
DNA.

Custody is produced
by Jaffe Braunstein Films in association with Gail Lyon Films for Lifetime
Television. Howard Braunstein (The Party Never Stops), Michael Jaffe (Write & Wrong) and Gail Lyon (Erin Brockovich, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton) serve as executive producers.

"It's truly unique for us to develop material with not
one, but two, male leads and we are thrilled to have cast two popular
television stars such as James Denton and Rob Morrow," said Libby Beers,
the senior VP of original movies at Lifetime Television. "This is a
compelling story about an extremely bright young girl torn between two fathers
who both love her and the choices she has to make."