Beach Girls (American TV series)

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Beach Girls
Genre Drama
Based on Beach Girls by Luanne Rice
Directed by Paul Shapiro
Sandy Smolan
Jeff Woolnough
Starring Rob Lowe
Chelsea Hobbs
Julia Ormond
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of episodes 6
Production
Executive producer(s) Robert Greenwald
Alys Shanti
Production company(s) Robert Greenwald Productions
Fox Television Studios
Release
Original network Lifetime (U.S.)
Fox Life, TF1 (France)
Original release July 31 (2005-07-31) –
August 28, 2005 (2005-08-28)
External links
[{{#property:P856}} Website]

Beach Girls was a six-part 2005 American limited series produced by Fox Television Studios and Robert Greenwald Productions and broadcast by Lifetime. The teleplay by Edithe Swensen, Elle Triedman, and Eric Tuchman was based on the 2004 bestselling novel by Luanne Rice.

The Beach Girls were three teenagers who spent their summers in the small, quiet beach town of Hubbard's Point. The trio grew apart and eventually went their separate ways, but the death of one of them reunites the surviving two, Stevie and Maddie, when her widower Jack and daughter Nell arrive in town.

Paul Shapiro, Sandy Smolan, and Jeff Woolnough shared directing credits. The cast included Rob Lowe as Jack, Chelsea Hobbs as Nell, Julia Ormond as Stevie, and Katherine Ashby as Maddie, with Chris Carmack and Cloris Leachman in featured roles.

The opening credits theme song was "Dreams," written by Dolores O'Riordan and Noel Hogan and performed by The Cranberries.

The series was filmed in Chester, Crystal Crescent Beach, and Halifax, all located in Nova Scotia, Canada. It aired in France and Sweden in 2006, Australia in 2007 and New Zealand in 2010. It has been released on DVD by Warner Home Video.

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