Lifetime Orders Production on New Movie

LOS ANGELES, February 22:
Lifetime Television has ordered production on a new original movie, Fab
Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal,
starring Academy Award-winner Tatum O’Neal, among others.

Scheduled to premiere this
summer on Lifetime, the new movie is based on the true story of a gutsy young
teacher who fights to end the reign of misbehavior by five beautiful and
well-connected cheerleaders who are allowed to do as they please at school.

In Fab Five: The Texas
Cheerleader Scandal, Brooke
Tippit, played by Ashley Benson (Days of Our Lives), is captain of the cheerleading squad and
daughter to Principal Lorene Tippit, played by O'Neal (Paper Moon). Tippit and her group of friends, known as the
"Fab Five," constantly disobey school rules and disregard teachers
while administrators turn the other way. But when an optimistic young teacher
named Emma Carr, portrayed by Jenna Dewan (Step Up), joins the faculty as the new cheerleading coach,
the girls discover they are in for quite a challenge when Carr doesn't let them
get away with breaking the rules like they used to. Carr asks for Principal
Tippit’s support in disciplining the girls, but is blindsided with a request for
a resignation instead. Frustrated, Carr risks the end to her teaching career by
breaking the news of the scandalous conduct of the "Fab Five" and
administrators to the local and national media.

Fab Five: The Texas
Cheerleader Scandal is produced by
Orly Adelson Productions in association with Fox Television Studios for
Lifetime. Orly Adelson (Lifetime's Odd Girl Out) serves as executive producer, Jonathan Eskenas (Ruffian) is co-executive producer and Bob Wilson is
producer. Tom McLoughlin (Lifetime's The Staircase Murders) directs from a script written by Teena Booth
(Lifetime's A Little Thing Called Murder).

—By Irene Lew