The CW’s free streaming service CW Seed has acquired the rights to ABC Family mystery soap The Lying Game.
Based on the novel series from Sara Shepard, with Charles Pratt Jr. (Melrose Place, Desperate Housewives) developing for television, The Lying Game followed kind-hearted teenager Emma Becker (Alexandra Chando) as she learns she has an identical twin sister named Sutton Mercer (Chando), who was adopted by wealthy parents. Once the two meet, Sutton convinces Emma to step into her life for a few days while she delves into the mystery of their birth mother. However, when Sutton fails to turn up, Emma is forced to decide whether she wants to come clean about her identity and just how badly she wants answers about why the two were separated in the first place.
In addition to Chando, the series starred Allie Gonino (The Red Road), Blair Redford (The Gifted), Andy Buckley (The Office), Helen Slater (Supergirl), Alice Greczyn (Lincoln Heights), Christian Alexander (General Hospital), and Charisma Carpenter (Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
The Lying Game is the latest off-network addition to CW Seed, which already houses a litany of short-lived CW series including The Secret Circle, The Carrie Diaries, and Hellcats. Among the service’s recent acquisitions are CBS space drama Extant, starring Oscar winner Halle Berry as an astronaut who returns home to her family inexplicably pregnant after 13 months in outer space on a solo mission; cult classic ABC dramedy Pushing Daisies; NBC comic drama Constantine, whose main character eventually became a series regular on Legends of Tomorrow; CBS vampire drama Moonlight, a victim of the 2007-08 writers’ strike; and ABC procedural Forever, which featured Ioan Gruffudd (Harrow) as an immortal medical examiner working with the NYPD.
#TheLyingGame is now streaming free on CW Seed: https://t.co/X0BpBA99ow pic.twitter.com/HBudsOAkmU
— The CW App (@cwseed) June 5, 2020
