Introducing THE LOTTERY

The new Lifetime drama The Lottery will debut on July 20 at 10 PM.

Set within a dystopian future (in the year 2025) driven by a global fertility crisis, the series reveals a world staring down the barrel of impending extinction as women have mysteriously stopped bearing children. After years of research, Dr. Alison Lennon (Marley Shelton from Eleventh Hour) and her team remarkably fertilize 100 embryos.

However, her victory is short-lived when the Director of the U.S. Fertility Commission, Darius Hayes (Martin Donovan from Homeland), takes government control of the lab and informs the President (Yul Vasquez from Magic City) of the monumental scientific breakthrough. To determine which women will carry the prized embryos to term, Chief of Staff Vanessa Keller (Athena Karkanis from Low Winter Sun) convinces the President to hold a national lottery and a battle over the control of the 100 embryos begins.

Michael Graziadei (American Horror Story) stars as Kyle, a recovering alcoholic and single father of one of the last children born in the country, while David Alpay (The Vampire Diaries) plays James, Alison’s colleague and lab assistant and Shelley Conn (Terra Nova) portrays Gabrielle, the First Lady of the United States.

There will be ten one-hour episodes of The Lottery debuting on July 20 at 10 PM on Lifetime.