--- description: 'A Deadly Adoption' will air on Lifetime this summer title: Kristen Wiig Will Ferrell Lifetime Movie: A Deadly Adoption image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8f819d4028bb8350/6987866f5f570ffc3db16114/will-ferrell-kristen-wiig.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig Made a Secret Lifetime Original Movie by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 2, 2015 3:19 PM CUT  From left: Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig From left: Will Ferrell and Kristen WiigGetty Images (2) by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 2, 2015 3:19 PM CUT Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig have teamed up for a new film—but this isn’t going to be a summer blockbuster playing at your local megaplex. Instead, it will air alongside such films as _A Daughter’s Nightmare, A Warden’s Ransom_ and _A Wife’s Nightmare_. That’s right—it’s airing on Lifetime. The film, called _A Deadly Adoption_, sounds like a very serious and dramatic reboot of _Baby Mama_ with Wiig and Ferrell playing a successful couple who hope to adopt the child carried by a young woman, played by _90210_ alum Jessica Lowndes. If the title is any hint, things quickly go awry. They might even turn deadly. The news broke yesterday, but Lifetime confirms that this is no April Fools’ joke. The film was made to mark the 25th anniversary of Lifetime’s reign over the made-for-TV movie genre. Apparently, Ferrell is a huge fan of the genre; he will executive-produce the film with his frequent collaborator Adam McKay. The film reunites Wiig, Ferrell, and screenwriter Andrew Steele, who worked on the epic _Thornbirds_\-inspired miniseries _The Spoils of Babylon_. The two-hour movie has already been filmed and is slated to premiere on Lifetime this summer. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3768887/will-ferrell-kristen-wiig-lifetime-deadly-adoption/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3768887/will-ferrell-kristen-wiig-lifetime-deadly-adoption/"},"headline":"Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig Made a Secret Lifetime Original Movie","datePublished":"2015-04-02T15:19:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T08:19:10.280Z","description":"A Deadly Adoption will air on Lifetime this summer","url":"https://time.com/3768887/will-ferrell-kristen-wiig-lifetime-deadly-adoption/","keywords":["Television","movies","Lifetime","Kristen Wiig","Will Ferrell"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8f819d4028bb8350/6987866f5f570ffc3db16114/will-ferrell-kristen-wiig.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8f819d4028bb8350/6987866f5f570ffc3db16114/will-ferrell-kristen-wiig.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"will-ferrell-kristen-wiig","caption":"From left: Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig","creditText":"Getty Images (2)","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3768887/will-ferrell-kristen-wiig-lifetime-deadly-adoption/","name":"Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig Made a Secret Lifetime Original Movie"}}]}] ```