As first teased in January, Hulu has finally made it official: The new unscripted series “The Secret Lives of Mormon Lives” will premiere on Friday, September 6. All six episodes of the show will drop at once.
Jeff Jenkins Prods. (“Bling Empire,” “My Unorthodox Life”) is behind the series, which is described as chronicling how a “scandalous world of a group of Mormon mom influencers implodes when they get caught in the midst of a swinging sex scandal that makes international headlines. Now, their sisterhood is shook to its core. Faith, friendship and reputations are all on the line. Will #MomTok be able to survive and continue to give the rulebook a run for its money, or will this group fall from grace?”
Walt Disney TV unscripted and alternative entertainment exec VP Rob Mills first teased the existence of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” in January, during a panel moderated by Variety at the Realscreen confab in New Orleans. Hulu previously aired another show set in the Mormon community in 2022, “Mormon No More.”
“The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” participants — and their social media handles, naturally — include Taylor Frankie Paul (@taylorfrankiepaul), Demi Engemann (@demilucymay_), Jennifer Affleck (@jenniferaffleckk), Jessi Ngatikaura (@_justjessiiii), Layla Wessel (@laylaleannetaylor), Mayci Neeley (@maycineeley), Mikayla Mathews (@mikaylamatthews) and Whitney Leavitt (@whitneyleavitt).
3BMG and Walt Disney Television Alternative are also behind the show with Jeff Jenkins Prods. Jenkins will exec produce with Russell Jay-Staglik, Andrea Metz, Brandon Beck and Eric Monsky at Jeff Jenkins Productions, Ross Weintraub and Reinout Oerlemans at 3BMG, and Danielle Pistotnik, Georgia Berger, and Lisa Filipelli at Select Management Group.
Hulu Originals continues to be busy in the unscripted space; it just renewed “The Kardashians” for an additional twenty episodes. Season 5 of “The Kardashians,” which premiered May 23, and was the most watched unscripted series premiere this year on Hulu in the US and on Disney+ and Star+ internationally.
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