Many fans of Ginny & Georgia can likely agree that the friend group known as Mang wouldn’t be the same without Abby, played by Katie Douglas. However, Douglas herself didn’t feel that way when she was first cast in the role. In an interview following the release of Ginny & Georgia Season 2 on Netflix, Douglas revealed that she auditioned for other roles before she became Abby. Then, she wasn’t sure Abby was the right character for her. Here’s why.

Antonia Gentry as Ginny and Katie Douglas as Abby in ‘Ginny & Georgia’ Season 2 | Netflix Katie Douglas auditioned for another role in ‘Ginny & Georgia’

In Ginny & Georgia, Abby is one of the four friends that make up Wellsbury High School’s Mang — the others are Max (Sara Waisglass), Norah (Chelsea Clark), and newcomer Ginny (Antonia Gentry).

When Ginny moves to town and befriends Max, Abby...

Cineflix Productions has promoted executive producer Jeff Vanderwal to VP, scripted, reporting into J.C. Mills, president and head of content.

Based in Toronto, Vanderwal sources, develops and oversees the production of scripted series and movies for the division. Since moving to the scripted team in 2018, Vanderwal has developed and produced a range of projects including Canadian Screen Awards -winning “I Was Lorena Bobbitt” and “Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey,” along with crime thrillers “Stolen by Their Father” and “Left for Dead: The Ashley Reeves Story.”

Vanderwal also produced music-based holiday movies “Undercover Holiday” for Hallmark Channel and Lifetime’s “Miracle in Motor City,” starring Tia Mowry and Motown legend Smokey Robinson. Vanderwal’s latest movie “Bad Behind Bars: Jodi Aria” recently premiered on Lifetime in the U.S. and Canada. He is currently developing a crime series based on the acclaimed Wakeland novels by Vancouver author Sam Wiebe.

Exclusive: Lifetime has given a green light to How To Murder Your Husband, one of the network’s new Ripped from the Headlines movies announced today, starring Cybill Shepherd (The Client List) and Steve Guttenberg. It’s slated for premiere on Saturday, January 14 at 8 pm/7c.

The project marks Shepherd’s return to Lifetime following her previous starring role in The Client List and a guest-starring role on Drop Dead Diva.

Based on a true story, the movie revolves around Nancy Crampton-Brophy, played by Shepherd, who seemed to have a knack for writing about murder. The Portland-based romance-thriller novelist authored books about relationships that were tumultuous, while using seductive men on the covers to lure in her readers. Often, her books featured women protagonists who fantasized about killing their own husbands or fleeing their husbands and faking their own deaths. And then, in 2022 in a shocking turn of events,...