Source: Hollywood Reporter via Reuters, Advocate, WorldScreen.com
LOS ANGELES -- Sordid Lives: The Series, a new comedic prequel to the 1996 play and 2000 film of the same name, will begin airing this fall on Logo, network officials announced Tuesday in a press release.

Produced by Scout and Once Upon A Time Productions, the half-hour series is about a dysfunctional southern family and their motley acquaintances. The series will be delivered in April 2008.

The project, slated for a fall premiere on the MTV Networks outlet, is based on Del Shores' 1996 play and 2000 film. Shores (Queer as Folk, Dharma & Greg) wrote and will direct all 12 half-hour episodes.

Most of the film and stage cast are reprising their roles in the series, including Olivia Newton-John, who will perform five new songs, and Beth Grant, who plays the drug-addled matriarch who struggles to cope with the problems of assorted family members. Delta Burke (Boston Legal, Popular) will also reprise her film role for the series.

In addition, Leslie Jordan (Boston Legal, Will & Grace) is set to guest star in several episodes, reprising his role as an institutionalized brother who channels Tammy Wynette (played by Wynette's daughter Georgette Jones).

The series also boasts a number of other celebrity guest appearances including by Margaret Cho, Candis Cayne, and Carson Kressley.

Logo, a division of Viacom and MTV Networks, has been developing the series for the past two years, and writing on all 12 episodes was completed by original creator Del Shores last year. Filming has already begun on location in Louisiana.

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