'Too Close To Home' Series PREMIERE Spoilers: Everything We Know About New Drama Series [VIDEO]
TLC is known for its reality television programming, featuring everything from lifestyle shows to more intimate looks into the lives of some unusual families scattered around the U.S., but the network is taking a different approach with the new drama series Too Close to Home.
The show, which debuts tonight, will be unlike anything the cable channel-which is known for popular shows like Say Yes To The Dress, Four Weddings, Breaking Amish, Sister Wives and Counting On, as well as formerly popular shows like 20 Kids and Counting and Honey Boo Boo-and because of the change, there is a lot of buzz around it.
Here are the three biggest things we know about the series:
It's The First Scripted Show TLC Is Running
TLC is known for the reality shows it runs, but this will the channel's first instance of dipping their toes into the scripted series pool. Following the success of other channels that did this in the last few years-Bravo found success with Girlfriend's Guide To Divorce and E! Received a cult smash with The Royals-it will be interesting to see if they can also create a hit and how it may affect other programming the channel offers in the future.
The Show Was Created By Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry is known mostly as an actor for his Madea character, and as a director of several other movies and television shows which rely on picking up on family dramas and how they all play out in the actual family dynamic between the characters. Too Close To Home appears to have a similar motif, but with a twist.
It Follows A Major Political Scandal
The series mainly follows Anna (Danielle Savre), a White House intern with a questionable and checkered past in Alabama, who winds up having an affair with the President of the United States (Matthew Battaglia). As the scandal threatens to unravel the entire life she built for herself in Washington after she left Alabama, she is forced to do the only thing she can-return home to her roots and confront the dark past and the family she left behind.
Too Close To Home premieres tonight at 9 p.m. on TLC.
