Flowers in the Attic gets a prequel TV series - starring Kelsey Grammer and Max Irons

Adaptation of Garden of Shadows to debut as a four-part 'event' on the US' Lifetime station

Max Irons: taking a starring role in the new Flowers in the Attic series

American TV station Lifetime, famed for its speciality in 'TV movies', last week announced a four-part series that might ring some bells for gothic romance fans: Flowers in the Attic: The Origin. 

The show will be a prequel to the station's 2014  Flowers in the Attic film and its follow-ups,  based on the books by V.C. Andrews, and take the direction of the series' prequel novel, Garden of Shadows.