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The Wrong... (film series)

American thriller television film series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ105730640
Source-derived summary

The Wrong... is an American television thriller television film series starring and produced by Vivica A. Fox for Lifetime. The series is produced by Hybrid Films and directed by David DeCoteau. Thirty movies have been produced since 2016. Some of the other notable actors in the series include Jason-Shane Scott, Jessica Morris, Tracy Nelson, Dominique Swain, and Eric Roberts.

A spin-off series, Keeping Up with the Joneses, also starring Fox, premiered on LMN in 2021.

Films

All films in the series have been directed by David DeCoteau, and are executive produced by and feature Vivica A. Fox.

The Wrong House, starring Clare Kramer, Tilky Jones, Allison McAtee and Thomas Calabro, and which premiered on Lifetime on December 26, 2016, was directed by Sam Irvin and does not feature Vivica A. Fox. Similarly, The Wrong Neighbor, starring Michael Madsen, Andrea Bogart, Steve Richard Harris, Cristine Prosperi and Ashlynn Yennie, was also directed by Irvin and Fox does not feature in the film, premiered on Lifetime on June 26, 2017. Both films are not part of The Wrong film series but simply titled "The Wrong..." being produced by Hybrid Films and have often been subsequently retitled by Lifetime for rebroadcast.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Wrong... (film series)” as american thriller television film series. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2021, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Wrong, film and series can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as american thriller television film series. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q105730640. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016, 2021 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from The Wrong... (film series)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.