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[08/26/21 - 11:14 AM]
Lifetime Unveils Full Fall Schedule Featuring Top Names All Season Long
As summer comes to an end, Lifetime ensures the fall is full of excitement with new premieres every weekend, starting on Labor Day, with the premiere of "Harry & Meghan: Escaping the Palace."

[07/21/21 - 10:02 AM]
Lifetime Announces "Switched Before Birth" - Starring Justina Machado and Skyler Samuels & Elisabeth Rohm Directs
Inspired by IVF stories of actual couples, the powerful film follows two strangers whose paths intersect and become forever intertwined following their IVF procedures.







SWITCHED BEFORE BIRTH (LIFETIME)
BROADCAST HISTORY:
10/23/21
STATUS:
telefilm/mini-series in the can
DESCRIPTION:
(from Lifetime's press release, August 2021) Switched Before Birth follows Olivia Crawford (Skyler Samuels) and her husband Brian (Bo Yokely), who after multiple miscarriages, numerous failed IVF trials and stretching themselves to the limit financially, finally receive the joyous news that she's pregnant with twins. While going through her latest round of IVF, Oliva meets and becomes fast friends with Anna Ramirez (Justina Machado), who is struggling to have a child after years of focusing on her successful restaurants. When Anna becomes pregnant as well, the ladies celebrate and begin to prepare for their babies. Olivia is also there for Anna when she suffers a devastating miscarriage and struggles to move forward while her marriage to restaurateur Gabe Ramirez (Yancey Arias) crumbles. When Olivia and Brian finally welcome their twins Olivia's life feels complete, but the happy couple's world is turned upside down when they discover that not only are the babies not twins, but one of the babies is also biologically Anna and Gabe's that was implanted into Olivia by mistake. Now pitted against each other, Olivia will do anything to keep the baby that she carried, while Anna will stop at nothing to bring her son home.
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Bo Yokely as Brian
· Justina Machado as Anna Ramirez
· Skyler Samuels as Olivia Crawford
· Yancey Arias as Gabe Ramirez
CREW INFORMATION:
· Alex Kerr as PROD
· Elisabeth Rohm as DIR
· Eric Tomosunas as EP
· Kelly Fullerton as WRTR
· Laurie Pozmantier as EP
· Leslie Greif as EP
· Ron Robinson as PROD
· Stacy Mandelberg as EP
GENRE(S):
· mow
STUDIO INFORMATION:
· Big Dreams Entertainment
· Swirl Films