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Cantone, Consuelos land Lifetime gigs

Actor Mark Consuelos answers questions during the Hallmark Channel panels at the 2008 Television Critic's Association Summer Press Tour in Beverly Hills, California on July 8, 2008. (UPI Photo/ Phil McCarten)

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Published: May 26, 2009 at 10:13 PM

LOS ANGELES, May 26 (UPI) -- Lifetime Movie Network Tuesday announced plans to air two fashion-themed murder mysteries this summer.

"Maggie Lawson stars as Lacey Smithsonian, a Washington, D.C., fashion reporter whose beat turns deadly when she stumbles upon some hair-raising murders in 'Killer Hair' and 'Hostile Makeover,'" Lifetime said in a news release about the small-screen adaptations of Ellen Byerrum's popular Crime of Fashion mysteries.

Mark Consuelos, Mario Cantone, Finola Hughes, Mary McDonnell and Victor Webster round out the cast for the two TV movies.

"Killer Hair" is to premiere June 21 and "Hostile Makeover" June 28.

Topics: Finola Hughes, Mary McDonnell

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