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Rose McGowan in Lifetime's The Pastor's Wife

By April MacIntyre Oct 14, 2011, 21:03 GMT

08/14/2011 - Rose McGowan - 2011 VH1 Do Something Awards - Arrivals - Palladium Hollywood - Hollywood, CA, USA © David Gabber / PR Photos

Time to clutch your rosary beads, as sultry vixen and alleged homewrecker Rose McGowan will star in Lifetime's original moive The Pastor's Wife.

Lifetime is set to premiere the original movie The Pastor’s Wife, starring Rose McGowan and Michael Shanks in a film about the shotgun slaying of a small town minister and revelations of his dark secrets involving sex, lies and betrayal -- shocking his God-fearing community and changing it forever. 

The Pastor’s Wife will debut on Saturday, November 5, at 8 pm ET/PT.

Based on a true story that made national headlines, The Pastor’s Wife centers on the 2006 death of Matthew Winkler (Shanks), a beloved minister and community leader who was mysteriously shot and killed in his Selmer, Tennessee, home.  During their investigation, the authorities soon zero in on Matthew’s wife, Mary (McGowan), as the crime’s prime suspect. 

But why would Mary, a dutiful preacher’s wife and young mother of three girls, kill her husband?  During her trial, shocking secrets about her relationship with Matthew are exposed, answering the disturbing questions many are asking about what really went on behind the closed doors of this “perfect family.”

Based on the non-fiction book by Dianne Fanning, The Pastor’s Wife is produced by Preacher Road Productions Ltd. and Front Street Pictures, with Gerald W. Abrams (Nuremburg, Four Minutes), Mike Moran, Juliet Smith and Harvey Kahn (Girl Fight) executive producing.  Norma Bailey (Too Late to Say Goodbye) directs a screenplay written by Robert L. Freedman (Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows).