EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime has set the new original movie Love on the Vineyard, which will be released as part of the network’s Love of a Lifetime franchise, starring Paula Patton (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Precious) and Derek Luke (13 Reasons Why, Antwone Fisher). The project reunites Patton with Luke, who previously starred in the 2013 romantic comedy Baggage Claim. Janet Hubert (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) also stars.
Tracey E. Edmonds (Soul Food, Jumping the Broom) returns to Lifetime to executive produce the film, which is set against the iconic backdrop of Martha’s Vineyard. The town of Oak Bluffs will be celebrated in Love on the Vineyard as one of America’s most historic Black communities.
Patton stars as Jordan Wilson, a successful Washington, D.C., commercial real estate executive who returns to Martha’s Vineyard with her teenage daughter after years away. There, Jordan reconnects with Eric Robinson (Luke), her former summer love, and becomes involved in a fight to save a beloved historic inn in Oak Bluffs, one that holds deep significance for the island’s Black community. As Jordan works to protect the property, she must navigate grief, family tensions, and the possibility of a second chance at love, discovering that preserving the past may be the key to embracing her future and reclaiming the love she thought she had lost forever.
Hubert will play Shirley Evans.
The film will close out Lifetime’s fall slate on Saturday, November 21, at 8/7c, following the previously announced romantic films Paradise with You, starring Taye Diggs, premiering November 7, and One Last Shot, starring, written, and executive produced by Tisha Campbell, premiering November 14.
