Lifetime is betting on “The Lottery” to be a hit.
The network has ordered a pilot for the drama “The Lottery,” described as a “conspiracy thriller set in a dystopian future when women have stopped having children.”
Set in a world that’s “staring down the brink of extinction,” the drama explores a situation where 100 embryos are successfully fertilized and raffled off in a national lottery held to determine who the surrogates will be.
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“As conflict, control and mystery over this important scientific breakthrough unfolds, government interests and power begin to dominate one of the most personal and basic elements of humanity — the right to have a family,” Lifetime said of the upcoming drama.
Timothy J. Sexton (“Children of Men”) wrote the pilot and serves as an executive producer, along with “Prison Break” alum Dawn Olmstead.