Lifetime orders more episodes for 'Lizzie Borden' series

Lifetime says it has ordered two additional episodes of its new limited series The Lizzie Borden Chronicles starring Christina Ricci.
Ricci will reprise her role as the notorious, real-life murder suspect from the cable TV network's hit original movie Lizzie Borden Took An Ax, which premiered last year.
Clea DuVall will also return as Lizzie's sister, Emma, in the eight-part series, which is to premiere in April.
"The Lizzie Borden Chronicles delivers an intense and fictionalized account of actual events and people surrounding Lizzie's life after her controversial acquittal of the horrific double murder of her father and stepmother in 1892, when the exonerated figure lives a life awash in newfound celebrity filled with scandalous love affairs," a synopsis said. "But when numerous people close to Lizzie -- ranging from her half-brother William to Broadway luminaries and her business associate/underworld kingpin Mr. Flowers -- start to mysteriously die under brutal and strange circumstances, legendary Pinkerton detective Charlie Siringo becomes determined to prove her involvement in their ultimate demise."
The series will co-star Andrew Howard, Jonathan Banks, Cole Hauser, Jessy Schram and John Heard