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The Lottery

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Set in a world destined for extinction as women have stopped having children. When remarkably 100 embryos are successfully fertilized, a national lottery is held to decide the surrogates.

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Marley Shelton
Dr. Alison Lennon
Michael Graziadei
Kyle Walker
Athena Karkanis
Vanessa Keller

Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

Pilot

Sun, Jul 20, 2014

One hundred eggs are inseminated by Dr. Alison Lennon as she convinces the president to hold a national lottery to see who will carry the prized embryos. However a battle over the embryos soon erupts.

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Inside Lifetime's Chilling New Dystopian Series The Lottery

It's 2025, a world without strollers, preschool and Sesame Street. There's no need when the youngest child on Earth is 6 years old and every woman alive has become infertile. Humans are an endangered species. That's the gut-wrenching premise of Lifetime's provocative new thriller The Lottery. You might call it a prequel to the 2006 movie Children of Men, a spiritual parable set in a violent, childless future. "While they have the same point of departure, it's a...

Fri, Jul 18, 2014
Inside Lifetime's Chilling New Dystopian Series The Lottery

Video: Check Out the Trailer for the Harrowing New Lifetime Series The Lottery

Imagine a world in which it's been five years since a baby was born. Welcome to Lifetime's new series, The Lottery, from Timothy J. Sexton, who earned an Oscar nomination for the Children of Men screenplay. Like that film, The Lottery is set in a dystopian world struck by global infertility. The lottery in question is held by the U.S. government to determine which women will carry 100 newly fertilized embryos.

Tue, Jun 3, 2014
Video: Check Out the Trailer for the Harrowing New Lifetime Series The Lottery