Vanessa Williams to Star in VH1’s Satan’s Sisters

NEW YORK: Singer/actress Vanessa Williams has been cast in the lead role of VH1’s upcoming scripted series inspired by Star Jones’s book Satan’s Sisters: A Novel of Fiction.

Williams is a Tony-, Grammy- and Emmy-nominated artist. She played the role of Wilhelmina Slater on the hit series Ugly Betty, and most recently appeared in the final season of Desperate Housewives, ABC’s 666 Park Avenue and had guest-starring roles on Royal Pains and The Good Wife. In the new VH1 series, Williams will play Maxine, the creator and host of The Lunch Hour, a daytime talk show hosted by five women with very different points of view.

The series is slated for a 2017 premiere. Executive producers are Josh Berman (Drop Dead Diva, CSI), Star Jones (TV personality, author and lawyer), Suzanne de Passe (The Temptations, Lonesome Dove), Madison Jones and Susan Levison. Writers for the series are Amy Engelberg and Wendy Engelberg, who also serve as executive producers. Suzanne Coston serves as co-executive producer. The series is a co-production with Sony Pictures Television.